RuneAudio+R e5

[matt]

Just to add to the confusion, for me anyway, i have found 1 album that is showing its coverart without me doing anything.
When I look in its folder there are no Coverart or Thumb files written by RA but there is a file called .mpdignore, dated today about 20 mins ago.
???

[rern]

[matt]

Thanks rern,
all my albums have .jpg named cover front or folder many are also embedded into music files. That is why I am so confused, I cant understand why some work and some don't.
I will try your suggestion to copy the directory but will need some help in the form of step by step instructions.
I can log into a session on putty but then I am a bit lost

Cheers

[rern]

[matt]

@rern
I followed your instructions exactly. Using Windows
Album 1: RA found art which showed when in the album directory but nowhere else. long pressing on coverart opened a browse window where I could navigate to the original folder on the nas (still containing coverart eg folder.jpg) and choose to open this file. Then the folder icon was updated to coverart and also appeared in the albums directory.
Album 2: coverart was embedded in music files. same result as above. also could short press on the coverart and choose update thumbnail which also worked.
Album 3. only RA logo showing. after long press, navigated to original folder on nas, choose coverart, folder updated to coverart and shows up in albums.
so yes that worked but a very slow manual process.

Unfortunately I seem to have come across another different issue.
Album 3 folder contains a cuesheet. All files have been renamed to 1- Audioslave.cue (or 2- Audioslave.cue etc) and will not play. this seems to be irrespective of updating the database with or without including cuesheets. The filenames are still correct on the usb drive
Album 1 folder also contains a cuesheet but all songs are listed and play correctly.

[R101]

@rern

Re: 20200914

In playlist, if the next button is pressed the next track is played but the existing track stays highlighted until the page is refreshed.

About the default meter sometimes appearing while radio is in use: this seems to happen occasionally when on-line cover art is not found. The player momentarily displays the correct default cover art, as set by the change cover art option, then switches to the default meter display.

[rern]

[rlsten]

I use a large capacity microSD in a Raspberry Pi 3 with RuneRe on a 100 MB BOOT Fat32 Partition and a 7 GB Ext4 ROOT Partition. The remainder of the card is an NTFS Partition for flac music files. I do this so I can add new music to the card from a Windows PC (Windows can't read ext4 partitions).

Because of this setup, it's been difficult updating Rune when a new image is uploaded by rern -- each time I write the image to the microsd I lose all the music and have to recopy it.

So I tried flashing an 8 GB microSD with the latest version of Rune, and then, using parts of the procedure from for dual booting OSMC and Rune, I copied the contents of the BOOT and ROOT partitions from the 8 GB microSD to the BOOT and ROOT partitions of the original large capacity microSD card.

Unfortunately, after doing this the system would not boot.

Does anyone know why this would happen--Is there something I'm missing? Is there something else I could do to keep RuneRe up to date without having to recopy all my music files?

Also, on a completely different topic, rern has really been doing a terrific job of keeping Rune alive--If I make a contribution now, does any of it go to rern?

Thanks,
Rod

[ceejayemm]

@rern

I updated today to 20200921, everything seemed to go OK until the end of the update when a number of mv commands could not be actioned and the folders don't seem to exist:-

/srv/http/settings/sources.php
/srv/http/settings/system-i2s.json
/srv/http/settings/system.php

mv: cannot stat '/srv/http/data/mpd/albumC'
: No such file or directory
mv:
cannot stat '/srv/http/data/mpd/albumartistC': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat '/srv/http/data/mpd/artistC'
: No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat '/srv/http/data/mpd/composerC'
: No such file or directory
mv:
cannot stat '/srv/http/data/mpd/genreC': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat '/srv/http/data/mpd/dateC'
: No such file or directory
mv:
cannot stat '/srv/http/data/mpd/counttitleC': No such file or directory

Duration 00:21

It doesn't seem to be causing a problem but I now have 2 directory structures:

root@RAOffice+R e5: # ls -lrt /srv/http/data/mpd
total 308
-rw-r--r-- 1 mpd audio 176307 Sep 12 18:50 mpd.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 http http 177 Sep 12 18:50 counts
-rw-r--r-- 1 mpd audio 266 Sep 19 09:56 mpdstate
drwxr-xr-x 2 http http 4096 Sep 21 18:11 cue
-rw-r--r-- 1 http http 26758 Sep 21 18:11 albumbyartist
-rw-r--r-- 1 http http 26758 Sep 21 18:11 album
-rw-r--r-- 1 http http 2320 Sep 21 18:11 albumartist
-rw-r--r-- 1 http http 12960 Sep 21 18:11 artist
-rw-r--r-- 1 http http 31955 Sep 21 18:11 composer
-rw-r--r-- 1 http http 459 Sep 21 18:11 genre
drwxr-xr-x 2 http http 4096 Sep 21 18:11 list
-rw-r--r-- 1 http http 2375 Sep 21 18:11 date

and within the list folder also:

root@RAOffice+R e5: # ls -lrt /srv/http/data/mpd/list
total 84
-rw-r--r-- 1 http http 25838 Sep 12 18:50 album
-rw-r--r-- 1 http http 1955 Sep 12 18:50 albumartist
-rw-r--r-- 1 http http 11320 Sep 12 18:50 artist
-rw-r--r-- 1 http http 29001 Sep 12 18:50 composer
-rw-r--r-- 1 http http 364 Sep 12 18:50 genre
-rw-r--r-- 1 http http 1958 Sep 12 18:50 date

Is this a problem ?

Chris

[R101]

Thanks for the fix, rern. What does the new symbol on the playback page indicate?