Library Not Loading

BayleeWylie

Just out of curiosity... What kind of power supply unit are you using? Because one time, something similar happened to me because I mistakenly took another PSU that had lower voltage and amps than what is suggested. For a "standard" setup you need a 5V 2A PSU.

marzie

This is a "good" 5V 2A walwart. I've always bought the highly rated ones on Amazon, and never less than 2A. I use this same PS with 4 other Pis.

Same as before, no internet players, or anything else on the library page. I tried mounting a network share first, as suggested, but I might not be doing it properly, or else our work network is preventing it. I swear at one point in time, I was able to see a bunch of my coworkers network drives without having to even set it up, but I could be misremembering, or confusing this with my Volumio install.

It is able to play, as before, searching the library, selecting individual songs, adding them to the queue and playing them. Although the queue doesn't show the tracks at all, this is kind of usable. But unless I get a solution soon, I will be switching back to Volumio until this can be sorted out. I like Rune so much better, (can't stand the green interface) but at some point I need to use something that works.

PeteB

marzie wrote...no internet players, or anything else on the library page. ....Although the queue doesn't show the tracks at all....

This looks like the UI is working only partly.

If this is consistent (does not improve after you reboot), I think if I were seeing this I would either reformat the SD card completely b/f flashing and updating it again, or just try another SD card. I have one older card which throws errors no matter what I do with it (Rune, phone, camera.... ) not all the time, but with any app or files loaded on it, eventually something breaks.

marzie

I think I got it working, here's what I did:

Unplugged USB drive
Flashed SD card with latest image
inserted card and powered up
Let it run for a long time, maybe 20 minutes? just to make sure it was fully booted.
ssh into pi
edited /boot/config.txt to allow for the DIgi+ (see first page of this thread)
ran the following:

cd /var/www
git stash
git pull

went to http://runeaudio/ in my browser (there was the spinning wheel for title, artist, etc.
went straight to "reboot" without going to any other screen
it came back up quickly and took me to the standard library page. Internet radio is playing, and I just plugged in my drive. Let's see if it works.

marzie

Well, I spoke to soon. After listening to internet radio for a minute or two, I went to the "source" page to see if my thumb drive was listed. It was, but when I went back to library, I saw the same blank screen as before. One thing to note, I never "named" this USB drive when it was plugged into my windows PC, so on the sources page, it was something like "sda1_san_disk_usb_ultra_fi" and it was probably even longer than that. I thought maybe that has something to do with it, so pulled it out and put it in my windows PC and renamed it to a short name, and plugged it back in and rebooted. We will see what happens.

marzie

Rebooted and it is back to working OK. I played a track from my library, but it still says the internet radio station I was playing earlier. I am not going back to sources if I can avoid it. Queue isn't displaying anything, which is probably why it is still showing the internet radio. I'm going to wait until the end of the day to see if it improves, at least I can finally play some music!!!

PeteB

marzie wrote....I never "named" this USB drive when it was plugged into my windows PC, so on the sources page, it was something like "sda1_san_disk_usb_ultra_fi" and it was probably even longer than that....

I see that too. Never bothered to give it a proper name. Does not make any diff. I can see. Mine looks very similar, and works fine: USB/sda1-usb-SanDisk_Ultra_Fi

Are you on a WiFi network now or wired ethernet?

PeteB

marzie wrote...Queue isn't displaying anything, which is probably why it is still showing the internet radio. I'm going to wait until the end of the day to see if it improves, at least I can finally play some music!!!

My web UI sometimes does not update completely, or not 100% correctly.

Not as bad as yours, but I made a couple other posts about it. See below.

#3221

#3233

By an interesting coincidence, I also have a Pi 2, also updated using the same method, and use a HiFiBerry DAC+ and DIGI+ (on two different players). Mine are on a pretty shaky WiFi network, using a phone or a travel WiFi hotspot, so I am not really shocked there are hiccups.

marzie

I'm on a wired network, but it is a work network, i.e. there are admin trolls lurking around trying to ruin my fun.

After being up all day, minimal use (I've been away from my desk a lot) I decided to try Spotify. As soon as I went to any page in the "Menu," immediately back to the spinning wheels on the playback screen, no queue, no library. I am going to try and reboot again, as that worked last time. But having to reboot every time I go to the menu? That is not going to be fun.

Yep, rebooted (way faster than before), but I couldn't switch the player over to spotify, I think I had my spotify account info wrong. I changed it and rebooted again and now this (screenshot below.) Rebooting isn't helping this time. I really don't want to have to do this all over again!

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marzie

I started over again, entered my spotify info, tried to change to spotify engine, it locked up, rebooted, now on the library page, spotify says "music for everyone" and on the playback page it tells me the spotify engine is active. However clicking spotify in the library results in a spinning wheel, nothing else. I'm done with this. I'm moving to internet radio and local storage and stopping this madness. I will be back to the crappy Volumio soon... so sad! I love rune! so much prettier than Volumio! I don't know why this is going so badly! The first time I installed rune it was seamless, no problems!

PeteB

marzie wroteI started over again, entered my spotify info, tried to change to spotify engine, it locked up, rebooted, now on the library page, spotify says "music for everyone" and on the playback page it tells me the spotify engine is active. However clicking spotify in the library results in a spinning wheel, nothing else. I'm done with this. I'm moving to internet radio and local storage and stopping this madness. I will be back to the crappy Volumio soon... so sad! I love rune! so much prettier than Volumio! I don't know why this is going so badly! The first time I installed rune it was seamless, no problems!

I can't help with Spotify, but at this point I would open a bug report for the UI problems. I have had some issues, but 99% of the time, it is working fine for me with hardware similar to yours.

You have put so much time into this already, another post in the section for Bug Reports won't hurt anything.

As I said before, I would start with a fresh SD card if you have one, keep this one for comparison, and try to get the Rune UI to work with a flash drive only, no shares, no NAS music sources, no Spotify.

Assuming the installation and update process went well, you should be able to open Dirble in the library and play some of the radio stations under that source (quite a few Dirble links are broken, so try more than one).

marzie

Where it stands now, I can play from the USB and web radio, however there are two big issues.

I have to keep the UI web window open at all times. If I close the window and reopen it, it goes back to the empty library and spinning play wheels.

If I ever go to a menu page, same result as closing the UI.

The fix for both of these issues is to go to the library page and reboot. As soon as the reboot starts, I see all the correct library items. Also, when it comes back online, I have full control again.

PeteB

It seems that the Rune UI, (or perhaps the browser) does not always communicate with the Pi. I get the spinning wheel too sometimes, but usually not for long, less than a second usually.

Can you say what kind of network you are on (I think you said in an office?) I the network is maxed out, I am not sure what happens to the Rune UI when you open the library etc.

Also, look at the network load and the processor load on your PC when the Rune UI is open in a browser, compared to processor load with UI closed. That may tell you if something odd is going on.

nopphong

I am the same have blank library page.At first i use firefox the other page work fine only librara page is blank.
Then i try to use crome instead (i leave firefox open) and it work library page is back.And when i go back to firefox the library is working too.
i wonder what happen to it. But i am glade it working now

i use Pi 2 with 0.4 runeaudio and use runeaudio.local in browser

hondagx35

Hi nopphong,

is this happening on Windows?

If see use "http://runeaudio/" not "http://runeaudio.local"!

frank

nopphong

Now it work better
thank you very much frank.

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