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Hi guys,

I have a few problems with my Ampache setup. Maybe it's because I'm real noob in Amahi and Linux at all...

1. The less serious one - I have similar problem as here - however there is no /hda/files/Music folder in my setup at all, because I have my music on a secondary hdd... Ampache doesn't accept my locally mounted share /mnt/samba/Music as a Catalog either. So, as a workaround, I just entered direct path to the files /var/hda/files/drives/drive3/musica (not using Greyhole currently) and it seemed to work, until I found problem 2:

2. Ampache is just indexing minor part of my music collection, which is whole stored in the aforementioned folder. The /var/hda/files/drives/drive3/musica of course contains another set of subfolders by genres - Folk, Rock, Metal (some of them subdivided in A, B, C... folders) etc. and also a Temp folder with the music I hadn't "catalogized" in the genre subdirs yet. Anyway, Ampache indexes most of the Temp folder and ignores almost all other subfolders. I removed the "All music" catalog and created only the "Metal scene" catalog of one of the subdirs, but it somehow froze as well - browsing through Artist reveals the indexing went (mostly) well untill leter K (there's about 300 artists A-K) and then just like 30 artists for L-Z, which is nonsense.

My HDA processor is about 99,5 % loaded with user "apache" command "httpd" (this is what "top" command said) for more than 6 hours but there are no new artists appearing in the catalog...

Anyone experienced this too? How to fix it please?

You might consider checking their forums. It is possible there is a bug in the application.

You can create a share in the dashboard called music to point to that location. I believe there is an option in Ampache to change the path of the music files as well. Can't remember the location, but I am sure their documentation will provide guidance.

Check permissions of your files for the second issue. Ensure all files are owned by your user. They should also be read/writable as well.

Is your music properly tagged? If it isn't I would recommend doing that first. Every problem that I have had so far with Ampache was because of a corrupt tag. If you haven't already checked out the Ampache Wiki, here is a link to the catalog specific settings and suggestions for troubleshooting http://ampache.org/wiki/install:catalog. Either way, I would enable logging to see where the catalog build is failing.

I had a similar problem. I'm also new to amahi, and linux, but after reading the troubleshooting instructions on the wiki, i sorted out my issue.

Could you share what you did so others might learn?

Thanks

solved this problem:

Amapches module getid3() cant read tags from broken mp3s:

http://ampache.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2926

you can repair this with mp3val:

##wget source from sourceforge
http://mp3val.sourceforge.net/index.shtml
##ready?
yum install gcc gcc-c++ make
##make
make -f Makefile.linux
sudo mv mp3val /usr/local/bin/
cd ~/Music
find /var/hda/files/music/ -name *mp3 -exec mp3val -f {} \;

Mybe its worth to mention that in the wiki...

Good idea. Would you mind adding it? We would greatly appreciate it