[villain]

having an issue with my tangara as of yesterday. hitting play from anywhere (selecting individual tracks, hitting shuffle, playing all of an artist, playing a specific album) all result in the playback screen reading 'Loading...' with the track numbers set to 0/0 and no audio output. if i select something else to play, it changes to 'Not Playing' and if i select something else after that it doesn't display anything at all.

i already tried a manual reset and that didn't help. i left it overnight to see if it would work itself out (this has helped with other issues in the past, shrug) but still getting the problem. i was previously running firmware v1.3.1, and was hoping updating (via companion) to v1.4.0 would fix it, but no dice. this hasn't happened before.
any suggestions?

[ailurux]

having an issue with my tangara as of yesterday. hitting play from anywhere (selecting individual tracks, hitting shuffle, playing all of an artist, playing a specific album) all result in the playback screen reading 'Loading...' with the track numbers set to 0/0 and no audio output. if i select something else to play, it changes to 'Not Playing' and if i select something else after that it doesn't display anything at all.

i already tried a manual reset and that didn't help. i left it overnight to see if it would work itself out (this has helped with other issues in the past, shrug) but still getting the problem. i was previously running firmware v1.3.1, and was hoping updating (via companion) to v1.4.0 would fix it, but no dice. this hasn't happened before.
any suggestions?

Can you play these tracks from the file browser, or does it not work there either? Just to narrow down whether the issue is with playback itself or the database not being able to find the file it's pointed to.

[neckspike]

Have you tried deleting the database off the card and then doing a hard reset?

[villain]

Came back to update - this was resolved, but I'm not 100% sure how. I had plugged my SD card into my computer via reader to try other things, got sidetracked and ended up not touching it. Plugged it back into the Tangara the next day and it worked as normal. I had already tried ejecting the SD card and plugging it back in before this and it had made no difference, so I'm not sure what changed in between!

Can you play these tracks from the file browser, or does it not work there either? Just to narrow down whether the issue is with playback itself or the database not being able to find the file it's pointed to.

I did try this before it fixed itself and indeed could not play things via the file browser.

Have you tried deleting the database off the card and then doing a hard reset?

Luckily this wasn't necessary as my database is pretty massive and would have taken ages to re-add - but hello, funny seeing you here! I remember you from tokutwt (i was kaixanized over there)

[ailurux]

Came back to update - this was resolved, but I'm not 100% sure how. I had plugged my SD card into my computer via reader to try other things, got sidetracked and ended up not touching it. Plugged it back into the Tangara the next day and it worked as normal. I had already tried ejecting the SD card and plugging it back in before this and it had made no difference, so I'm not sure what changed in between!

Huh, that's odd. Well, glad it's working now! :3 Let us know if it happens again, as it would be good to figure out what could cause that.

[Habmala]

I'm getting results very similar to this right now. I had loaded some new music on to the SD-card and updated my database. But I was playing old files. My first symptom was when I shuffled an artist it kept playing the same song over and over and not advancing to the next track. So I tried to force by pressing forward and then it went silent. Now it wont play anything at all. It's either "not playing" "loading" or just blank when I start a track. I get the same results from file or from database.

I figured it was something with the database so I was going to try and remove it go generate a new one but I now get an error-message trying to mount my SD-card on my computer.

Code:

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /run/media/habmala/
[sudo] password for habmala:
FUSE exfat 1.4.0 (libfuse3)
ERROR: bad date 1980-00-00.
ERROR: bad date 1980-00-00.
ERROR: '.queue.playlist' has invalid checksum (0xe590 != 0x6992).

Not sure if it's relevant, but maybe something happened to the queue ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ , no idea what those dates are.

My next step would be to reformat the card and add my music again. But I figure maybe I should wait if there is any relevant debugging I can do before I nuke this. Let me know if I can help.

EDIT to say I'm on firmware 1.4.0.

Also sorry to hijack the thread if it's not the same issue, it just seemed very similar. Let me know if I should have started a new thread.

[ailurux]

I'm getting results very similar to this right now. I had loaded some new music on to the SD-card and updated my database. But I was playing old files. My first symptom was when I shuffled an artist it kept playing the same song over and over and not advancing to the next track. So I tried to force by pressing forward and then it went silent. Now it wont play anything at all. It's either "not playing" "loading" or just blank when I start a track. I get the same results from file or from database.

I figured it was something with the database so I was going to try and remove it go generate a new one but I now get an error-message trying to mount my SD-card on my computer.

Code:

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /run/media/habmala/
[sudo] password for habmala:
FUSE exfat 1.4.0 (libfuse3)
ERROR: bad date 1980-00-00.
ERROR: bad date 1980-00-00.
ERROR: '.queue.playlist' has invalid checksum (0xe590 != 0x6992).

Not sure if it's relevant, but maybe something happened to the queue ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ , no idea what those dates are.

My next step would be to reformat the card and add my music again. But I figure maybe I should wait if there is any relevant debugging I can do before I nuke this. Let me know if I can help.

EDIT to say I'm on firmware 1.4.0.

Also sorry to hijack the thread if it's not the same issue, it just seemed very similar. Let me know if I should have started a new thread.

This looks to me like the `.queue.playlist` file might have become corrupted. I know that can sometimes happen if the SD card isn't unmounted before removing. Maybe this is what happened in the original post as well. 

Thanks for the info. I don't think any additional debugging info is needed. But let us know if it happens again. Thanks!

[Habmala]

Great, thanks. I'll try to restore the card then 👍

[neckspike]

Came back to update - this was resolved, but I'm not 100% sure how. I had plugged my SD card into my computer via reader to try other things, got sidetracked and ended up not touching it. Plugged it back into the Tangara the next day and it worked as normal. I had already tried ejecting the SD card and plugging it back in before this and it had made no difference, so I'm not sure what changed in between!

Can you play these tracks from the file browser, or does it not work there either? Just to narrow down whether the issue is with playback itself or the database not being able to find the file it's pointed to.

I did try this before it fixed itself and indeed could not play things via the file browser.

Have you tried deleting the database off the card and then doing a hard reset?

Luckily this wasn't necessary as my database is pretty massive and would have taken ages to re-add - but hello, funny seeing you here! I remember you from tokutwt (i was kaixanized over there)

Yah! I was like "oh it's tackyvillain!" funny how small the world is sometimes