Hi.

When selecting an mp3-song on my frontend(R5C7) it just halts.

I have a backend(R5B7) computer which contains all my music, movies, pictures etc. On this computer I can enter mythmusic and play the mp3s without problem.
all media are exported via nfs to my frontend computer in my living room.

On my frontend(problem is still present after a fresh install, hence I assume the problem is on the backend-side) i can access everything via nfs. mythgallery, mythvideo. But when I select a mp3-song it just halts.. pressing back works.. it just wont play the song. updating the database works fine, i can see all the mp3-files.
If playing the mp3-file in an xterm with mplayer it works perfect. Ive double checked the paths in frontend gui.

Ive searched some logfiles but havent found anything.. So where should I look first? Maybe some mp3-codec is broken after I installed new audio-drivers? xvid, divx, dvd, tv, tvrecordings still work.

thnx

Have you verified from the command line that the music directory is importing via NFS?

Thats what this sounds like to me. I had problems importing in my music and wallpapers using NFS, so I switched to samba and my problem went away.

I know this isnt a solution, but I'd check your fstab for your nfs statement and ensure it is correct, that rights are set correctly, and verify that NFS is connecting and importing the directory structure to your Myth system

on my backend(x.x.x.102):




on frontend(x.x.x.101):


in frontend gui, path for music:
/mnt/ide_250/music/

in an xterm on frontend:

..plays fine


..so the conclusion is that the nfs works fine. also the fact that updating the database ("scan for music") works as it should supports this idea.
Plying the song on the backend also works fine.

Is there a log that mythmusic writes to when errors occur? maybe I hsould start there. i cant fins such log anywhere...

Ok, that all looks good to me. What happens if you go to /mnt/ide_250/music/ and do a directory? Do the files show? If not, it's a rights issue, on either /mnt/ide_250 or /mnt/ide_250/music

I have my rights set on the shared folder on my fronted as a+rwx and this lets me access my tunes. If the share is mounted you will first need to unmount the share on the frontend, the change the rights to the folders.

ex. chmod a+rwx /mnt/ide_250

Rights are fussy and sometimes can be difficult to track down, but I'm betting (and yes I am a gambler), your problem is withing rights on the frontend machine.

You'll also want to make sure on the frontend that the path matches where your actual mount point is. My first time setting up a frontend only I found the music path to be pointing to something like /var/lib/music when in fact my frontend should have been pointing at /myth/music

Hope some of this helps ya out bud.

Hi again.
thx for all your help but unfortunately I cannot see whats wrong.

i can (as user mythtv) create, move, delete and list files in the /mnt/ide_250/music directory.

Ive double checked that the directory path to the music files is correctly written in the frontend gui settings.

And as I said before... playing the songs from the command prompt works fine as well. Im clueless.

There must be some log I can search for errors. mythmusic probably logs the error somwhere?
ne1 knows where to look?

/Martin

Mine is a little different don't know if it would help or not.

In my exports file I just have
/myth

in the fstab on the frontend it is

ip address:/myth/music /myth/music and the reset the same as yours


then on the frontend under the music setup I have put
/myth/music

and it works fine for me. I have also done the same with
/myth/video
/myth/gallery

for video and pictures.

don't know if that will help but hopefully

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Marty

Long live Myth and Knoppmyth!!!!!

solved.

It turned out that the audio device in "settings - music" was not right.
somehow it got changed and i turned it back to "dsp" and then it worked fine.

thx for your support.