Browse Library page blank after Rebuild MPD Library

chuckles

There are actually 2 problems here. The first is that if I delete an album from the library and do a rebuild, the deleted album still shows up. The second is that after doing a couple of rebuilds to try to get rid of the deleted albums, the Browse Library page is now broken. All that is displayed is the title "Browse Your Library"

What do I need to do in order to rebuild the library from scratch?
Is the album delete issue a Rune or MPD bug?

Thanks,
A

chuckles

I have answered my own questions:

To rebuild/recreate the MPD database, I :

deleted var/lib/mpd/mpd.db
rebooted pi (I'm guessing that restarting MPD would have worked)
went to Sources and clicked on "Rebuild MPD Library"

I discovered that the reason the deleted content is still in the database is because there is a hidden folder on the USB drive that Windows creates/uses. (See https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/171694). I use a windows PC to update/edit the music on this device.
I mounted the drive on a Mac and was able to see/delete the folder. I reattached the drive on the Pi and rebult the library. The deleted music is now gone. If I could only figure out how to mount just the music folder instead of the whole drive, I could easily avoid this problem.

chuckles

Here is more on the blank "Browse Library" page. This only seems to occur on Windows based machines (I have tried XP and 7) running Firefox. Both these systems display the same behaviour. The "Browse Library" page remains blank until I access the Rune GUI from another system (Mac, iPad, Windows). As soon as the "Playback" page is displayed on the other system (regardless of browser used), the page is displayed on the Windows system.

Has anyone else seen this behaviour? Looking for a solution

Thanks,
A

hondagx35

Hi chuckles,

Has anyone else seen this behaviour? Looking for a solution

please update your system.

Frank

chuckles

Thanks for the reply.

Rune tells me that it is already up-to-date. Just in case, I manually installed the nightly build. I still see the behaviour as described previously.

This strikes me as odd though. When I ssh into system I see:

RuneOs: 0.3-beta (build 20141029)
RuneUI: 1.3

Is this correct since the nightly build has been installed?

hondagx35

Hi,

the behavior you described is definitely solved on the dev branch.
Did you reset your browser cache after updating?

As final step, always remember to hard refresh the cache of your browser. (howto)

Frank

chuckles

Yes, I have done all that. Still no joy.

runeballoon

hi there,

just a +1 on this.

seems to be happening over here, too. i have the latest gitpull build for a Rasp Pi. same behavior where the Library page is blank as far as song entries.. (the page is not blank, the page shows the frame and control icons... just that there are no songs listed).

i tried the suggestions in this thread, deleting the var/lib/mpd/mpd.db file and then restarting / doing a library rebuild.. i can see -- via SSH -- that the mpd.db file gets rebuilt after a minute or two, but still nothing showing on the Library page. no difference after rebooting the pi, after clicking around, nothing..

BUT, the strangest thing, as noted by another person in this thread, as soon as i surfed to the Runeaudio Library page from a SECOND browser, the Library page suddenly populated on both the first browser and on the second browser. It's like the second browser woke the page up...?

The first browser is Firefox -- and i already did clear the browser cache and restarted the browser. The second browser is Internet Explorer.

Very interesting behavior, yes?

Thank you for your wonderful work on this project. Its really a wonderful piece of work so far and you seem like some very brilliant coders who ALSO have excellent design aesthetic senses. That's a rare mix. Thank you.

Best regards,
Runeballoon

hondagx35

Hi,

do you connect with http://runeaudio or http://runeaudio.local?
If so, please try the ip instead

Frank

dwijtsma

Both issues are there for a very long time already. Almost a year ago I already noticed it.

I use picoreplayer by now. Completely stable and now issues so far for more than half a year. Tried it on a old raspberry i had lying around. A week later Runeaudio stopped streaming and got library issues. So I swapped at that moment to the picoreplayer and never went back.

Only thing I miss it the really nice GUI.

runeballoon

Hi Frank!

Thank you for the reply.

AND, amazing, the IP seems to work!

I had been using http://runaudio.local up until now..

Any idea why the IP works better than the hostname? Is there something I need to change with my LAN setup so that it can work correctly via the hostname?

But, I'm happy it works with IP!

Thank you!

runeballoon

[not sure if my reply posted the first time, not seeing it in the thread... re-posting in case...]

Hi Frank!

Thank you for the reply.

Thank you!