LMS 7.7.2 - Music Folders gone AWOL?

[Dr_Jim]

ARRRGH!

Installed the offered LMS update to ver 7.7.2 the other day & it went as smoothly as all of the other recent updates so everything looked well.

Or did it?

Horrifyingly, the contents of 'Music Folder' now lists as "Empty" - which essentially nukes some 600GB of music - since my library is so old that it's organized in hierarchical directory trees roughly sorted by Genre / Artist / Album and I much prefer to access my tune through the folder structure than navigate from Tags.

All of the other sort options 'Artists, Albums, Genres, etc' seem to be correct, I've cleared and re-scanned the library, and tried to sort with and without MusicIP as a status manager - no joy from these efforts.

Even more irritating, the same bug happens under both Windows 7 and Linux (Ubuntu 11.10)- I thought it might be a data overflow problem, something like too many files in the directories - but LMS still fails to display any music folders when run against 300 files in two nested directories.

!SIGH!

Yes, I can drop back to an older version of LMS, but I really hope that this is a bug, and not a decision to no longer support file system structures.

Cheers and TIA for your answers

Jim

[Moffedille]

I see the same.
I don't believe folder browsing is being dropped, in fact I believe I recently saw a foum post that stated that fixing the folder browse functionality was high on the priority list now.

[Soulkeeper]

Hei, my folders are gone too.

This must have happened in the latest update, r33802. It worked fine earlier this week. Yeah, it's probably a bug, not a feature.

[mherger]

> Horrifyingly, the contents of 'Music Folder' now lists as "Empty" -
> which essentially nukes some 600GB of music - since my library is so
> old that it's organized in hierarchical directory trees roughly sorted
> by Genre / Artist / Album and I much prefer to access my tune through
> the folder structure than navigate from Tags.

How many folders do you have in your main music folder? Any messages in
server.log?

I did indeed fix an issue in BMF which was caused by an optimization.
Unfortunately fixing that issue means removing the optimization. If you
have a lot of entries at the root of your folder tree, this can cause the
client to time out waiting for the server.

> to display any music folders when run against 300 files in two nested
> directories.

If 300 is the maximum, then what I tried to explain shouldn't happen :-(

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Michael

[Moffedille]

How many folders do you have in your main music folder? Any messages in
server.log?

I did indeed fix an issue in BMF which was caused by an optimization.
Unfortunately fixing that issue means removing the optimization. If you
have a lot of entries at the root of your folder tree, this can cause the
client to time out waiting for the server.

In the root directory of my music folder, I've got three subfolders. None show up, it's listed as empty.

[JJZolx]

I'm seeing the same thing here.

The bug was introduced in r33774, with the changes to Queries.pm.

[Dr_Jim]

>


How many folders do you have in your main music folder? Any messages in
server.log?

I did indeed fix an issue in BMF which was caused by an optimization.
Unfortunately fixing that issue means removing the optimization. If you
have a lot of entries at the root of your folder tree, this can cause the
client to time out waiting for the server.

Michael

Michael -

The library resides on two servers (Windows 7 64-bit AMD PC, and Ubuntu on T-3400 dual core laptop) with a 2Tb ReadyNas Duo as a backup and spare host.

The main directory has 15 sub-folders, who have anywhere from 45 to 648 sub folders each, with a total of 23,670 files in the main library.

No obvious error messages in either the server or scanner logs - tried restarting LMS from its 'Control Panel' with the Run with no user extensions' checked, but still no joy.

Thanks for your reply & attention . . .

Cheers

Jim

[mherger]

> The bug was introduced in r33774, with the changes to Queries.pm

I'm sorry guys - had a poor start after my vacation :-/. Should be fixed
in r33808.

Thanks for the heads up!

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Michael

[Zombie]

I must express my gratitude to all Darwin Award candidates that jump on a new server version the same minute it is released.
Thank you!

[pippin]

I must express my gratitude to all Darwin Award candidates that jump on a new server version the same minute it is released.
Thank you!

It's worse, it's not even released yet, it's a beta...

And betas are betas because they are supposed to have bugs.