4.6.1. after update - big problems with playlists

[letterman 34]

The playlist behaviour is totally buggy after update.

After update & full library scan all playlists seems to be fine, but they are not. The artists are not shown & sometimes the small preview pics are missing.
Metadata referesh etc does not help. Removing songs from playlist and adding them again does not help.
Even worse: after deleting a song it is impossible to add it again to any playlist.

THE ONLY SOLUTION right now is:

- REMOVE the file from filestructure
- perform library scan
- RENAME the filename (no change in tags)
- Add the file again to filestructre
- library scan again
- after that: adding the song to the playlist works fine (Name, Artist, adding, deleting etc perfectly)

So, there must be a bug in the database, which is connected with the filename.
Because if you add the filename without renaming again, the same problem appears.

But I cannot delete, rename and import all files again.

Please help.

 

[Carlo 4331]

Hi, how were the playlists created originally?
Were these playlists created manually or by m3u files?

[Luke 37247]

It's nothing to do with playlists. The music library gets rescanned, however there are a couple sporadic reports of obsolete items being left in the database.

We will look into this. If you're willing to remove your music library altogether, do a full scan of all libraries to clean out the database and then add it back, this will resolve it.

[letterman 34]

Luke, my library has tons of files (5 GB) - your recommended procedure would take a least 2x 168(!) hours = 14+ days rescan (2 times, first delete, then again) and all' my playlists & collections must be manually edited afterwards. This means a terrible desaster. and should not be the "solution" after an update

It would be gorgeous if you find a way to solve it. Maybe with an e.g. maintaince tool?

[Luke 37247]

If you want to wait until the 4.6.2 release next week it might help. There were some cleanup routines that I had removed that I thought weren't needed anymore. I'll also have them back up on the beta channel tonight.

[letterman 34]

Luke, thank you so much! No prob waiting to 4.6.2, but of course I will try the beta and give feedback. I appreciate your work very much. 

 

[letterman 34]

23 hours ago, letterman said:

Luke, thank you so much! No prob waiting to 4.6.2, but of course I will try the beta and give feedback. I appreciate your work very much. 

Thx. Also this topic solved here:

 

[Luke 37247]

Thanks for the feedback.