Problems with RPi3 + Jessie 2017-02-16

[Adrianqq]

(07-03-2017 15:43)simoncn Wrote:  The installation instructions are in this section. If you follow these steps, you will be prompted for the content directory and you won't see the red icon.

You can do it the other way as well, as you have been doing. After getting the red icon, you should open Properties, enter the contentDir value, then click Restart from the minim icon. You are doing Stop/Exit/reboot and this might be related to the problem you are having. I will try this to see what happens.

Hi. Followed (and have been following prior to this) the installation instructions verbatim. Have tried Restart from the drop down box and Relaunch from properties once I've set the content directory. No dice. I've tried a brand new RPi3 - same problem. I've moved my music files from a USB drive to the micro SD card - doesn't help. Two things are puzzling me:
1: why no dialog box to request the content directory at first startup
2: why does the installed software work after setting content via the properties panel - I can start and close it down several times and it still works OK but as soon as I reboot or shutdown/power up it doesn't even start. No greyed out icon, no red box. When I configure the RPi3 I set the following:
Extend partition to use all of 8GB sd card
Boot to console with auto login
Force audio to HDMI
Set timezone, keyboard and wifi country to UK settings
are any of these settings liable to cause a problem for minimserver ?