My Music playlists losing songs

[hansvanderveeke]

Hi,
I have a problem with playlists I make in My Music.

I create a playlist and add songs which I have in my music collection on my NAS.
For a time all songs play fine. But after some time it does not play some songs in the playlist. It just skips them. The icon with the album cover shows a note in a white background while before it displayed the cover. It is still in the playlist but just won't play anymore. When I check the song in my library it is still there and I can also play it. When I add it again to my playlist it works again but I am tired of creating my playlists every few weeks.

Does anyone recognize this problem and have a solution?

 

[simbun]

What music server are you using? With some servers the track URLs can change during rescans, leading to the scenario you describe.

 

[hansvanderveeke]

Ik am using the standard media server on my Iomega NAS. There is almost nothing to configure there.

Is there some workaround for it?

 

[simbun]

If the problem is with the server then there is no workaround, as only the URL provides direct access to the tracks.

It might be worth recreating the playlists in another control point (BubbleUPnP on Android or mconnect lite on iOS) so you can check them if/when the playlists in the WiiM Home app fails. At least this would help identify the source of the problem.

In addition to the above, the format of the URL might give us some insight.

• If you're on Android, install BubbleUPnP, browse to a track and select 'Show metadata' from the vertical ellipsis.
• On iOS you might be able to use foobar mobile, though it's a bit more complicated:
  • Browse to a track through Browse > Media Servers
  • Long press on a track and select 'Add radio bookmark'
  • Navigate back to the root of the Browse tree and select 'Internet Radio' where the track URL should be displayed

I'm expecting it to be based on MiniDLNA which would look something like: http://192.168.*.*:8200/MediaItems/NN.flac

 

[hansvanderveeke]

Thanks for the help SimBun. I think you are right that the url changes when the media server does a new index.
I will try and find out but I am afraid the the playlist will not be working with my media server.

I tried to find Foobar mobile in the app store but I was unable to find it.

 

[simbun]

I tried to find Foobar mobile in the app store but I was unable to find it.

There's an app store link on the foobar2000 website: https://www.foobar2000.org/ios

Could you install a different server?