RC3: auto volume analysis --> playback problem [F4097 RC4

[Octopod]

Hi,

I just found a really major issue.

I installed all MM3 version since RC1 and all was fine.

A few days ago i activated the auto-analysis feature (tracks & album volume analysis as a background task) and let MM compute all for a few hours. Then i didn't use it for a few days.

Now, ALL my 12 Ktracks are analyzed (tracks & album) but today i found that no track can be played!!! Works fine with other players (WMP11 for example)

My theory (to be confirmed): only tracks added to the library BEFORE mass analysis (or before MM v3, not sure) will play! I have a few albums that can be play (added recently), the older ones cannot. And if i remove some old tracks from the library then re-add them they will play.

Somebody to confirm this?
Any help would be appreciated to avoid resetting my library... (even a script that reset all volume analysis)

Thanks in advance.

[Octopod]

My theory (to be confirmed): only tracks added to the library BEFORE mass analysis (or before MM v3, not sure) will play!

I complete my own theory: only tracks added to the library BEFORE mass analysis and that was not analyzed yet won't play...

[Octopod]

Just another "funny" thing : when a track is so hanged and doesn't play, as soon the menu "Player | Volume leveling" is changed, the track starts playing.

Then if you try to play another track and go back to play this one:
- it will always play now!
- the player position is restored...

Really amazing behaviour
Help!

[Octopod]

Up.

I confirm that all the tracks that were part of MM2's DB are not playable anymore.

[Octopod]

Well, seems nobody's interested or concerned by this issue.

So i think nobody's interested by its solution...

[jiri]

Sorry, I haven't seen this thread yet. Could you e-mail me some sample tracks with this problem? So far we aren't aware of any problem in this area...

Jiri

[rovingcowboy]

what plugin are you using. maybe it is messing up?

so all you did was level analyize the songs. ? i'll see if the ogg files are affected that way?


nope i did anaylize by right clicking on the song and clicking on it where it was listed on the context menu.

i did it with all the options unchecked,
then i checked one of the three.
then i checked two of the three.
i then changed what one was unchecked then tried it again.
the songs still played.

i even closed mm 3 rc 3 and started it again and the songs still played..
i have no idea what caused your trouble but the ogg files seem to handle the anaylizing just fine.

[Octopod]

Actually, tracks were not involved but only the DB.

The problem is gone after manually cleaning DB fields in Songs table.

I reset the following columns: OrigFileLength (NULL), PlaybackPos (0), Web* (NULL), Cache* (NULL), Preview* (NULL)

I don't know precisely where was the problem but it's ok now... All i know is that my MM2 DB as been converted with RC1, then RC2 computed all tracks & albums volume ; then only tracks added to the library by MM3 where readable (and tracks that were not part of the library as well).

[Octopod]

what plugin are you using. maybe it is messing up?

Minimal and default plugins used.
I tried removing ALL the unecessary DLLs from the install dir and also by changing out plugin: no change

i'll see if the ogg files are affected that way?

Only MP3s in my library...

[Octopod]

I just tried to identify the modified field(s) that allowed to restore playable tracks.
Actually, setting column PlaybackPos to 0 was sufficient to fix my library.
Hope this could highlight a potential issue.

[rusty]

Octopod,

We were trying to fix some flac-related auto-volume-analysis issues before investigating this. Now that those have been resolved, I've been able to replicate this issue.

In my environment, the problem occurs for any tracks that match a filter for which playback rules have been configured to enable bookmarking. In a default environment, that is any Podcast or Audiobook.

Does that match your experience?

-Rusty

[Octopod]

Does that match your experience?

Yes i think it is close to my problem.
I realized after posting that both problems raised at the same time (please have a look to this post http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23066).

[rusty]

Fixed in RC4.

-Rusty