weird issue with amahitunes

[moredruid]

hmm I have a weird issue with amahitunes: iTunes (on Mac) will play some tracks, but not all tracks. You can hit play all you want but it just won't stream.
it's not a permission issue since all music is owned by apache:user and world read/write/executable
I already restarted the mt-daapd service and the avahi-daemon service to no avail.

If I add the file(s) to the iTunes library over the smb share they play fine. Once they've been added they play fine in amahitunes as well - even when the smb-share is disconnected

[cpg]

i have heard of this of the firefly media server. some types of formats are not supported somehow. did you check the log for mt-daap?
i believe it will show streams that it cannot play, iirc.

[moredruid]

there were some log entries about short files (3) so I've removed them...
will test and report back if this has helped. It doesn't seem likely since those 3 files are not the files I was trying to play.

[cpg]

firefly scans the files initially and later periodically. that may be why.

[moredruid]

that comment makes it even weirder... iTunes is only able to play the stuff that's been added last week...

[moredruid]

OK, I tried moving the stuff around, put in in another share, put it back, same result. doublechecked the permissions, all OK.
Then for the heck of it I created a new subfolder "music" in music (making the full path /var/hda/files/music/music/) and moved all my mp3's in there (instead of /var/hda/files/music/) and iTunes is able to find & play every mp3 now.

me no understand.

[cpg]

strange. check the /var/log/messages, which is where i think the summary reports go. you can also check the web page for the mt-daapd server ... at http://hda:3689 and see the guts of it.