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The behaviour when playing a track, by which i'm usually going to a genre, most recently Electronic and playing the first of all the 87 songs. When I press play it shows it counting up to all the 87 tracks and then nothing. Have tried this with other methods, so just scrolling to a random song and hitting play and nothing happens and the cursor never progresses the song, not even pausing and then unpausing.

Weird thing is that the week or so of having the Tangara it seemed like I could get it up to at least 76ish gigs and playing fine, so i'm not sure what the cause could be?

How could I assist in sending more data that could be helpful to solving what might be going on? i'm using windows but have a linux box as well

That is an odd issue. It seems like indexing is fine if you can see the tracks by genre, so that's good at least, but it sounds like there might be an issue with reading/writing to the queue file, or that there's an error in playing these tracks.

If you could connect the Tangara to a computer to read the serial output whilst attempting to play these tracks, there might be some errors logged that could help narrow down the cause. On Windows I believe you can use PuTTY, or on a linux machine you can use `screen`. The baud or speed should be 115200, otherwise you might get garbled output.

As another thing to check, the queue is stored internally in a queue playlist. It should be located at the root of the SD card, and be named `.queue.playlist`. You might need to show hidden files to see it. This is what Tangara looks at when it attempts to play the tracks in the queue. If the queue hasn't been cleared, this file should contain a list of all the tracks in the queue. When there's an error opening or playing a track, it'll go to the next one in this file, which sounds like it's happening for every track if it's just cycling through all of them very quickly and not playing them. You could check that the tracks listed in this file are pointing to the right filepaths.