Bugzilla – Bug 17475
Some files cause Error: Unable to read at least 10 (or 16) bytes from file.
Last modified: 2011-08-21 01:03:28 UTC
In 7.6.1 r33073 the scanner.log shows multiple entries e.g. [11-08-14 08:13:48.1134] Audio::Scan::scan (64) Warning: Error: Unable to read at least 10 bytes from file. [11-08-14 08:14:15.5047] Audio::Scan::scan (64) Warning: Error: Unable to read at least 16 bytes from file. The default logging levels show no indication of which files are problematic. 7.5.x logging levels did show each file name as it was scanned whihc made identification easier but that is gone in 7.6.x. Although it is possible to increase the log level to do this, it would be good to name the file with this error to remove the need to do this. Full story at: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=649773#post649773 The problematic files (which play Ok in VLC) have been uploaded to the FTP server and are: 14/05/2008 01:10 261,184,626 08 Corona Radiata.wav 14/05/2008 01:09 169,688,852 10 Demon Seed.wav (from Nine Inch Nails - The Slip - free download 2496 album.) 02/10/1995 11:17 4,548,890 DEERTIME.MOV 08/09/1995 13:35 1,004,893 MONTANA.MOV 02/10/1995 11:18 630,325 TUBE_MAN.MOV (from Pere Ubu bonus CD material - even though these are video files, they should surely be ignored and not cause an error)
To summarise there are two issues: 1) The default log level should report which file is causing the "unreadable" error. 2) Some files which are playable via VLC are apparently unreadable to the scanner.
This looks a bit similar to bug #17466
Ok I'll leave bug #17466 to deal with issue #1 i.e. the default log level should report which file is causing the "unreadable" error. This bug will just be concerned with the particular files that cause the error.