Nightly Scanning Getting Stuck ..

[garym]

No. I've moved the file, and it still gets stuck. Even though I moved it and then did a "clear library and rescan everything." It's still looking for that file in the old location, and thus it still gets stuck.

Hmmm. Very odd with a clear and rescan. Have you done a clearing of the lms cache (in windows, the control panel in lower right tray

[JJZolx]

No. I've moved the file, and it still gets stuck. Even though I moved it and then did a "clear library and rescan everything." It's still looking for that file in the old location, and thus it still gets stuck.

That doesn't really make any sense, unless maybe there's a playlist pointing at the file, or a shortcut. Try temporarily moving all your playlists and running a full 'clear library' rescan.

[NFLnut]

Now, things get really weird .. I could not stop the scan, even by force-closing (Task Manager) SqueezeSvr.exe. So, I rebooted the computer. Opened up the web control/Settings/Information and found this:

"Scanning new music files: D:\My Music (1 of 2809) Running 69:46:42" (and still stuck on the same file that is no longer at that location)

Immediately after a reboot. So in my opinion, scanning got stuck days/weeks ago and despite my having a daily scheduled scan to find new and changed files, it has actually not been scanning for quite some time. Thus, my attempts to abort the scan are not working because there is actually no scanning taking place. I tried moving the playlists files/folders to a new location, but without being able to actually get a scan to happen (because it actually THINKS it is scanning) I don't know what to do next.

[JJZolx]

Stop the server, delete the contents of the cache folder, then restart the server. LMS will automatically launch a full scan when it sees no database.

If you don't know where the cache folder is, before stopping the server go to the web interface, settings, information and the path will be shown near the bottom of the page.

[NFLnut]

Thanks. It appears to be scanning again. I'll know in the morning whether it gets hung up again.

[NFLnut]

Back again .. I've tried clearing and rescanning. I've tried moving playlists. I've tried moving individual files that it gets stuck on. Each time however, it just gets stuck on another random file in a random folder. All of the files it gets stuck on are good (non-corrupted) files. Today, I uninstalled LMS, deleted settings files and folders and then did a new re-install. Now, it is getting stuck on a different file. Attempting to abort a stuck scan is futile. The only way I've successfully been able to abort a scan is to open "Task Damager" and "End Task" on scanner.exe.

After 5-6 years of successful Squeezeboxing, I've about had it! Anyone want to suggest something that I haven't already tried?

[JJZolx]

How about trying LMS 7.7.3?

- What version of Windows is running on the server?

- Is LMS running as a Windows service, or does it run when you login?

- Are you using LMS' media server capabilities? Are you scanning photos and videos, either within the music folder or within other folders?

- Are there any other media servers running on the computer?

- Do you have any anti-virus software running on the computer?

- Are you running any 3rd party plugins? Which ones?

- Which built-in plugins are you running?

- Is 'D:\My Music' the same as your 'My Documents > My Music' folder?

- Are you sure that you have _no_ shortcuts remaining?

[NFLnut]

How about trying LMS 7.7.3?

Running it now. Another fresh install. Still getting stuck. Every time I move "the offending file," it just gets stuck on another random file in a random folder. None of my music files are corrupted.

- What version of Windows is running on the server?

Windows 7 Ultimate

- Is LMS running as a Windows service, or does it run when you login?

Starts up at login.

- Are you using LMS' media server capabilities? Are you scanning photos and videos, either within the music folder or within other folders?

No photos or videos.

- Are there any other media servers running on the computer?

Subsonic. It's coexisted with LMS for a year or two, until the last couple of weeks. There have been no updates on either LMS or Subsonic.

- Do you have any anti-virus software running on the computer?

AVG

- Are you running any 3rd party plugins? Which ones?

Spicefly Sugarcube, Remove Played Songs, Album Review, CD Player, Community Softsqueeze, Date & Time, Extension Downloader, Last.FM Audioscrobbler, License Manager, MusicIP, Live 365, SuperDateTime, Rhapsody, Pandora, Tune In Radio, SongScanner, Wave Input, Slacker

- Which built-in plugins are you running?

Not sure which of the above are built in

- Is 'D:\My Music' the same as your 'My Documents > My Music' folder?

No. My Documents>My Music is on the C: drive.

- Are you sure that you have _no_ shortcuts remaining?

Yes.

[JJZolx]

What I would do...

1. First, create a test library so that when you run your tests you don't have to wait too long to see either a failure or success. Since it doesn't sound like any particular tracks are hanging the scanner, this should be fairly easy. What I do is grab albums that make up a variety of different challenges for the scanner/server, so that the test library roughly represents the master library. Include albums from different genres, albums with various artists, albums with just one artist, albums with more than one artist, albums with guests, etc. If you have both FLAC and MP3 be sure to include a mixture of each. I'd say make the library about 1000-1500 tracks, or whatever your server can do a full scan on in under a minute.
   
   This may take you ten or fifteen minutes, but it's worth it. Run a scan on this test library and see if LMS still hangs up. Hopefully it will. After this, if any of the remaining ideas cause LMS to successfully get through a scan, switch back to the full library and do a full scan and see if it too is a success.
   
   
2. Disable the anti-virus, run a scan.
   
   
3. Disable all plugins and run a scan. If you you have success, gradually add a few back at a time until it fails. See if you can pinpoint which plugin(s) are causing the trouble.
   
   
4. Shut down Subsonic and run a scan.