Bugzilla – Bug 7813
importing playlists (pls) does not work reliably
Last modified: 2009-07-31 10:19:30 UTC
I just upgraded to SqC 7.0.1 from SlimServer, hoping to find that facilities for handling playlists created and managed outside of SqC had improved. I was never able to reliably get playlists to import using the SS web interface. I managed to get a few playlists imported using the command line tool that the web interface invokes, though never reliably. I am disappointed to find a similar situation in SqC 7.0.1. Web-driven playlist scans find nothing in /music/playlists even though the command line tool does when I use: sudo /usr/libexec/squeezecenter-scanner --force --rescan --playlists scan.scanner If I add --debug, I can see it correctly parsing the playlists, but the playlists do not reliably appear in any of: web interface, duet controller, squeezebox2 interface. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. To reiterate: if I try this from the web interface, it will fail everytime. Stats: 3 playlists in /music/playlists, all .pls format main library is in /music
> I am disappointed to find a similar situation in SqC 7.0.1. Web-driven playlist > scans find nothing in /music/playlists even though the command line tool does > when I use: > > sudo /usr/libexec/squeezecenter-scanner --force --rescan --playlists > scan.scanner Sounds like permissions issue to me: Please check permissions on your playlist folder. The biggest difference I'm seeing here is that you're running the scanner as root. SC does not. Thus if the squeezecenter user is not allowed to access that folder it won't be able to scan the files. > If I add --debug, I can see it correctly parsing the playlists, but the > playlists do not reliably appear in any of: web interface, duet controller, > squeezebox2 interface. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Please upload a scanner log with all scan.* options set to debug and the scanner run from the web interface.
QA to reproduce for 7.1
i can confirm that fixing the file permissions corrected this issue. i apologize for the noob-ishness of this bug report. i don't understand why the permissions ended up as they did, but hey, thats Rhythmbox :) obviously, some kind of warning that playlists were found but could not be read might be helpful or useful.
might be part of 6369 - thanks for the feedback.
(In reply to comment #3) > i can confirm that fixing the file permissions corrected this issue. i > apologize for the noob-ishness of this bug report. i don't understand why the > permissions ended up as they did, but hey, thats Rhythmbox :) > > obviously, some kind of warning that playlists were found but could not be read > might be helpful or useful. > Marking bug verified
Reduce number of active targets for SC