Posts by VancoD

  • LE 12.2.1 x86_64 What happened to "automatic" playlists / playing all files in a folder?

    Quote from chewitt

    Have you read https://kodi.wiki/view/Playlists ?

    lol - wow - I kept my wiki search as simple as possible and used "playlist" and did not find that page. I appreciate the pointer.

    I have successfully created a playlist and can open it via the standard context menu for playlists.

    But non-function weirdness continues. The playlist still only plays one song and quits. If I start a song and let it complete it just exits. If I start a song in the playlist and hit "next" it just exits. If I play 7 or 8 random songs in the playlist (by opening the playlist and selecting them), then use the left context menu to look at "current playlist" all I see are those 7 or 8 songs - the playlist I created and selected seems to be gone from the playlist.

    I still don't know why the default behavior of playing all files in a directory was removed, but it's gone, so I guess it's gone.

  • LE 12.2.1 x86_64 What happened to "automatic" playlists / playing all files in a folder?

    Issue:
    Pre-12x: navigating to any music folder with the "Music" option and playing and single song resulted in what I assume was some sort of "automatic" playlist where all song in that folder would play. I would prefer to get this behavior back if possible.

    12.x: Now, it plays one song and says there's nothing else in the playlist.

    Is there a primer on managing playlists? I don't see anything on the Wiki. I've tried to use the UI to generate a playlist, and they simply seem to vanish into the aethers after I save them. No new playlist gets generated. I'm saving them as .pls - is that acceptable? (clearly: no lol) /shrug
    And I seem to have one singular playlist from some time in the past (again, that I can't seem to locate via browsing the UI) that plays any time I put any song in a playlist, and when I select "Party Mode" this mystery playlist is somehow all that ever gets cued. If I clear the playlist and come back to the music player later this playlist is back, with the same dozen songs from a random directory in my library.

  • LibreElec don't find my new hard drive

    Well - good news / odd news.
    I shut down LibreELEC to boot from my stick, had an issue with the bootloader, so I was going to run parted on it (inside LibreELEC) to wipe it out.... and....

    Kodi:~ # dmesg | grep sdb

    [ 2.987150] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 60566016 512-byte logical blocks: (31.0 GB/28.9 GiB)

    [ 2.987883] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off

    [ 2.987886] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 2b 00 00 08

    [ 2.988641] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA

    [ 3.236826] sdb: sdb1 sdb2

    [ 3.239190] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

    [ 516.450350] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 60566016 512-byte logical blocks: (31.0 GB/28.9 GiB)

    [ 516.451111] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off

    [ 516.451116] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 2b 00 00 08

    [ 516.451730] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA

    [ 517.966454] sdb: sdb1 sdb2
    [ 517.969520] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

    <USB stick pulled / USB drive inserted>
    [ 710.369064] sdb:

    [ 715.861101] sdb:

    [ 731.358468] sdb:

    [ 781.405228] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).

    [ 781.405608] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 5860533168 512-byte logical blocks: (3.00 TB/2.73 TiB)

    [ 781.406602] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off

    [ 781.406608] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 34 00 00 00

    [ 781.407597] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA

    [ 781.409590] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).

    [ 781.476028] sdb: sdb1

    [ 781.477203] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).

    [ 781.479952] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk

    [ 781.842249] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)


    So it's now "fine".

    Kodi:~ # ls -l /var/media/sdb1-ata-ST3000DM001-1CH1/

    total 128

    drwx------ 2 1000 1000 20480 Jul 20 2014 MST3k

    drwxr-xr-x 5 1000 1000 12288 Sep 20 08:42 Movies

    drwxr-xr-x 2 1000 1000 49152 Sep 18 10:09 Music

    drwxr-xr-x 3 1000 1000 4096 Jul 8 2016 RiffTrax

    drwxr-xr-x 7 1000 1000 4096 Feb 21 2016 TV

    drwxr-xr-x 2 1000 1000 4096 Nov 18 14:59 Woodworking Vids

    drwx------ 6 1000 1000 12288 Nov 20 10:37 YouTubes

    drwx------ 2 1000 1000 16384 Jun 26 2014 lost+found

    drwxrwxr-x 3 1000 1000 4096 Nov 23 18:13 temp



    I'm wondering if the drive enclosure is going bad......

  • LibreElec don't find my new hard drive

    I just shot my previous install of Kodi in the face because it was becoming increasingly problematic over the course of the last several years as XBMC (and Kodibuntu) "matured" to where they are today - Kodi, and "no longer supported". Updating the core OS resulted in odd behavior in Kodi.

    I had a perfectly functional external USB drive (2 TB) on that Kodi system. It was fine when I shut down my system, and it was not plugged in during the LibreELEC install....

    Now that I've <ahem> "upgraded" to LibreELEC my USB drive isn't being seen correctly.

    Kodi:~ # blkid

    <snip>
    /dev/sdb: PTTYPE="PMBR"

    Kodi:~ # blkid -o list

    device fs_type label mount point UUID

    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    <snip>
    /dev/sdb (not mounted)


    Kodi:~ # dmesg | grep sdb

    [ 641.920427] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 4294967295 512-byte logical blocks: (2.20 TB/2.00 TiB)

    [ 641.921439] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off

    [ 641.921442] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 34 00 00 00

    [ 641.922422] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA

    [ 642.159137] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk

    [ 1742.619992] F2FS-fs (sdb): Magic Mismatch, valid(0xf2f52010) - read(0xebd0a0a2)

    [ 1742.619996] F2FS-fs (sdb): Can't find valid F2FS filesystem in 1th superblock

    [ 1742.620616] F2FS-fs (sdb): Magic Mismatch, valid(0xf2f52010) - read(0x0)

    [ 1742.620619] F2FS-fs (sdb): Can't find valid F2FS filesystem in 2th superblock

    [ 1742.620631] F2FS-fs (sdb): Magic Mismatch, valid(0xf2f52010) - read(0xebd0a0a2)

    [ 1742.620632] F2FS-fs (sdb): Can't find valid F2FS filesystem in 1th superblock

    [ 1742.620634] F2FS-fs (sdb): Magic Mismatch, valid(0xf2f52010) - read(0x0)

    [ 1742.620635] F2FS-fs (sdb): Can't find valid F2FS filesystem in 2th superblock


    The boot buffer messages have me concerned - can LibreELEC not read GPT partitions??

    From parted - the news does not look good at all:
    (parted) print all

    print all

    Error: Invalid argument during seek for read on /dev/sdb

    Retry/Ignore/Cancel? I

    I

    Error: The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that will be used.

    OK/Cancel? OK

    OK

    Model: ST3000DM 001-1CH166 (scsi)

    Disk /dev/sdb: 2199GB

    Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

    Partition Table: unknown

    Disk Flags:


    I really hope that "Partition table unknown" message is simply an issue with LibreELEC's version of parted...

    At this point I'm most likely to just go back to Ubuntu or Debian hoping that the drive is fine (as I believe it to be) - but I thought I'd ask here just on the odds there's a simple answer to my issue.... Sadly I don't have another Linux box handy that I can try the drive on.....