by jsouza » 13 Sep 2020, 17:32
After my unsuccessful attempt to use +R e4, I decided to try again with e5. I have two RPi setups, one Pi 2 Model B, one Pi 3 Model B+, both with same PiHAT DAC (HiFiBerry+). The Pi 2 B is connected to a NAS over Ethernet. The Pi 3 B+ has a USB hard drive connected. I burned e5 20200912 to micro SD cards and immediately updated each to the latest, which was 20200913. Chose the correct DAC, which also disabled on-board audio, and turned off the mixer/set No Volume for Bit Perfect playback. Rebuilt the library (first time library build) on the Pi 3 B+. I have about 37,000 songs and the library build took about two hours. When that was completed, played back some audio as a test. Everything seemed to work great. Had a completely different experience on the Pi 2 B, just like last time with e4. Went through the same initial/configuration steps, and started a library rebuilt. Let that run overnight, and this morning the library was still being updated, according to the UI anyway. Shutdown the Pi via the UI, cut the power to the device for a few seconds, turned power back on, and can no longer connect to the device. What seems to have happened is that library rebuild became hung, and perhaps the device did not cleanly shut down, and now it won't boot anymore. The difference between my two setups is that the successful one is the faster, more recent Pi device. The successful one is connected to a local USB drive, not NAS over the network. The Pi 2 has only 100Mbps Ethernet, so perhaps that is a factor, although unlikely, I would think. Another difference is that my NAS has files other than audio files, and perhaps the library rebuild has issues with non-audio files? I seem to recall that I had that same issue a few years back when I tried Volumio. It had problems with non-audio files in the library.
