I found some .mp3s to work and some not, but it seems almost random. If I use JRemote to play to the Mac client it works some times, but if I try to play it from the mac client directly it gives an error. like what the heck, this is so strange. Some times the waveform shows up but progress bar doesn't start and the track stops without error.
What is strange is after I had cast from JRemote to the Mac client, the track worked once, then after i tried another song from the same album, not working. And when I tried the same track that worked right before it also errors. I'm actually starting to get anxiety from this because I have a lot of music in .mp3 that I got from various places that didn't offer lossless, I definitely don't want to give up on that music. Sometimes the playback takes like 15 seconds before it starts. I also was able to change tag data and it saved to the server, yet playback still errors.
If I were to consider the possibility of this being a hardware/os issue, how would I start looking?
Edit: the more I mess around with trying to get it to work, the more unstable it is becoming, now like a third of playbacks fails even on fiac, I'm really stressed out and I don't know what to do anymore, I wish there were something I could do. Running chkdsk now on the drive itself because I can't think of anything else.