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hoyt

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New Audio Imported - Issue With Client Playback
« on: February 21, 2022, 12:17:49 pm »

This has been going on for a long time and I never posted about it, but it's particularly annoying.  I have a client open and I import new music onto my server.  The new album shows on my client, so I find it and hit play.  Nothing happens.  Then I look on the server and there's a popup that says "Playback Failed: The database entries for the selected files are missing and invalid."  I can find the same album on the server and play it, which works fine, or I can close the client, reopen and it plays just fine. 
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Re: New Audio Imported - Issue With Client Playback
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2022, 04:04:20 pm »

Are these files moving in the meantime?
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Re: New Audio Imported - Issue With Client Playback
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2022, 04:14:19 pm »

No.  They get saved to a network path, then imported into MC. 
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Re: New Audio Imported - Issue With Client Playback
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2022, 06:58:50 pm »

I just tried to replicate this with a new recording and logging turned on.  Of course it didn't happen, but then I realized I was playing back to the client in my test.  Normally I sit at my desk and play to a DLNA zone on my server (from my client).  I'll give that a shot again tomorrow because I would say this commonly happens.  It's not a rare occurrence when something goes weird, it's every new album/ recording that I import when the client is open and I try to direct playback from the client to the DLNA zone on the server.
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Re: New Audio Imported - Issue With Client Playback
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2022, 09:42:44 am »

I replicated this at my desk and I think the fact that I'm playing to a server zone may be a cause.  Here's the workflow:

1) Client is up and running on Mac, zone is set to There: rpi01 (a DLNA renderer).
2) New tracks get imported into the server via MCWS calls (not sure this matters, but I'm not using auto-import, I'm using a python script that finds new files and pushing them into MCWS with /Library/Import)
3) I see the new track on the client and hit play so that it should go to There: rpi01.  The client does nothing, on the server I see the "database entries" popup.

Filename on the client looks correct (it's a windows path on the server).  I can find the same file on the server and send it to the DLNA zone without an issue.  I'm happy to provide log files.
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Re: New Audio Imported - Issue With Client Playback
« Reply #5 on: May 16, 2022, 09:10:31 am »

I'm still experiencing this and wanted to bump this thread back up.  I've determined that I don't need to restart MC on my client, but instead I can disconnect/ reconnect to the server.
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