Message after rescan: Unknown path on line 1 of played-files.txt (162 others)

[z624391]

Every Minimserver rescan is concluded with the message "Unknown path on line 1 of played-files.txt (162 others).

I checked the log file and also the paths which are listed in the output, none of them seems invalid. This is the first line:

2023-02-28 17:24:01.383 /share/CACHEDEV5_DATA/Music Library/foobar2000/## POP ##/Deep Forest/World Mix/04 Night Bird.flac

What is happening here?

[simoncn]

What is your setting for contentDir?

[z624391]

The contentDir exists of 3 items:
- /share/CACHEDEV5_DATA/Music Library
- /share/CACHEDEV5_DATA/Music Library/foobar2000/## ROEL EXCLUDED ##
- /share/CACHEDEV5_DATA/Music Library/foobar2000/## UWE MEIER EXCLUDED ##

With excludePattern:
## ROEL EXCLUDED ##, ## UWE MEIER EXCLUDED ##

I created this setup to list these items in the folder view.

[simoncn]

Are you sure that the file

/share/CACHEDEV5_DATA/Music Library/foobar2000/## POP ##/Deep Forest/World Mix/04 Night Bird.flac

currently exists in your library and is not excluded by excludePattern?

[z624391]

I now see what is happening:

- I changed file names from "<nn> <title>" to "<nn>. <title>"

Old path's in the playlist are still checked ending up with this message. After cleaning up the invalid paths the message disappeared after a rescan.

So, when you do some maintenance a playlist clean-up could be necessary.

Thx for your support and guidance.

[simoncn]

This is why the played-files.txt file is a plain text file that can be edited by the user in such a situation.

[nederlanditis]

(29-03-2023 11:27)simoncn Wrote:  This is why the played-files.txt file is a plain text file that can be edited by the user in such a situation. :)

Same issue here. Where will I find the played-files.txt file? Or: What causes the trouble?

[z624391]

You can find the played-files.txt file under "/share/MinimServer/recent/".

[simoncn]

This message is caused by renaming files and/or folders. Because some or all of your played files now have different file paths, MinimServer cannot find the files with the old paths that are listed in the played-files.txt file. MinimServer doesn't know what the new paths are (or if the files still exist), so it produces this warning message.

If you are using a QNAP NAS to run MinimServer, the path posted by z624391 is correct. If you are using some other device, please post what device you are using.

[ceejayemm]

Simon

Similar problem on Linux Docker installation:

MinimServer 2.2 update 240, Copyright © 2012-2023 Simon Nash. All rights reserved.
MinimStreamer 2.0.11, Copyright © 2012-2022 Simon Nash. All rights reserved.
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 14.0.1+7)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 14.0.1+7, mixed mode, sharing)
Platform default charset is UTF-8
System platform is linux-x64
Setting indexArtwork to auto
Removing artworkFolder setting
Removing recentAdded setting
Removing recentPlayed setting
UPnP port 9791 has been selected
Single subnet 192.168.86.0 has been selected
Using platform default language English (en-US)
Current time is Thu Aug 03 11:42:39 GMT 2023 in time zone GMT
starting MinimServer[minimserver]
Unknown path on line 34 of played-files.txt (11 others)
Library contains 5109 audio files in 477 folders
MinimServer[minimserver] is running
Startup complete

Also Java errors in Minimserver Docker log:

/opt/minimserver/bin/startd: line 113: 29 Aborted (core dumped) LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${MINIMDIR}/libsys" MINIM_LANG="${MINIM_LANG}" "${JAVAX}" ${JAVAOPTS} -jar "${MINIMDIR}/lib/m${ws}.jar" --launchrc --set watch.view=log --nohup ${MINIMOPTS} "$@" > "${OUTFILE}" 2>&1
/opt/minimserver/bin/startd: line 113: 736 Aborted (core dumped) LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${MINIMDIR}/libsys" MINIM_LANG="${MINIM_LANG}" "${JAVAX}" ${JAVAOPTS} -jar "${MINIMDIR}/lib/m${ws}.jar" --launchrc ${RELAUNCH} --set watch.view=log --nohup ${MINIMOPTS} "$@" >> "${OUTFILE}" 2>&1
/opt/minimserver/bin/startd: line 113: 29 Aborted (core dumped) LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${MINIMDIR}/libsys" MINIM_LANG="${MINIM_LANG}" "${JAVAX}" ${JAVAOPTS} -jar "${MINIMDIR}/lib/m${ws}.jar" --launchrc --set watch.view=log --nohup ${MINIMOPTS} "$@" > "${OUTFILE}" 2>&1
/opt/minimserver/bin/startd: line 113: 29 Aborted (core dumped) LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${MINIMDIR}/libsys" MINIM_LANG="${MINIM_LANG}" "${JAVAX}" ${JAVAOPTS} -jar "${MINIMDIR}/lib/m${ws}.jar" --launchrc --set watch.view=log --nohup ${MINIMOPTS} "$@" > "${OUTFILE}" 2>&1

Any suggestions?

Regards.

Chris