Network folders are showing up empty in MusicBox 0.5.1rc

Pi MusicBox
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Hi,

I’m trying out MusicBox 0.5.1rc because it’s support for Raspberry B+ with HiFiBerry.

I noticed that when browsing networkfolders there are no tracks found.
When browsing the network using the console I see the music files.

Also when browsing Artists I don’t see all the tracks. In other upnp browsers the content does show.

Another thing I noticed with 0.5.1.rc is that under airplay on my iPhone I see MusicBox (MusicBox) and shairport-sync (MusicBox).
Is it supposed to show up twice?

Kind regards,
Jacco

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did you set it to index the files on startup?

2: that’s a bug indeed, the two airplay devices

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Yes, i did set it to index at startup.

But the fact that network folders are empty has nothing to do with indexing…or does it?

Maybe same problem as Paul_Winstanley?

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I have a similar problem since v0.5.1. If a subfolder or file in a structure includes signes like ä,ü,ß… the whole folder is empty.

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Same problem with RC2.
I have no special characters like é in the file and folder names.
And still Browse Network: No tracks found…

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In a testfolder, I also had to remove signs like ´ " and so on
If I only use latin letters from a to z, the content of the folder get visable, without any rescan.

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Are you guys setting a suitable encoding in the mount command options field? I vaguely remember something similar being an issue previously.

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To follow up, https://github.com/woutervanwijk/Pi-MusicBox/pull/128 is the issue I was referring to and you can see the iocharset=utf8 option that was added there. Strangely that option (along with others) was removed in 0.5.1alpha. @woutervanwijk, was this intentional? Does it break something?

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I see no iocharset=utf8 with the mount command.
In what file is the automount command for the network share?
But this is still a strange problem. I can’t figure out why some albums show up empty and others are not.
For instance, a song that don’t see in the webinterface is Dreadlock Holiday.mp3
It’s in the folder: \nas\music\10CC\Dreadlock Holiday. So i see the album but not the song.
The space is not the problem since I have more songs and folders that has a space and they do show up in the webclient.

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As I said, the iocharset option was recently removed, so not, you don’t see it. If you look in the link I posted you can see the file that controls the mounting is /opt/musicbox/startup.sh.

Correct, the space is not an issue. Can you verify the permissions are all OK?

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I put iocharset=utf8 in the shartup script. It now looks like this:
mount -t cifs -o sec=ntlm,ro,iocharset=utf8,user=$INI__network__mount_user,password=$INI__network__mount_password $INI__network__mount_address /music/Network/

But when I check with mount it shows:
//nas/music on /music/Network type cifs (ro,relatime,vers=1.0,sec=ntlm,cache=strict,username=root,uid=0,noforceuid,gid=0,noforcegid,addr=192.168.1.100,unix,posixpaths,serverino,acl,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,actimeo=1)

No iocharset=utf8

I checked permissions and they look ok.
Also when I browse from the console I can see all songs. Including the ones I don’t see in the webclient.

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OK, well unicode shares are not supported by some servers but that’s probably pretty unlikely for a modern NAS.

Can you check the file’s id2/3 tags are correct, or at least comparable to a file that does appear in the webclient?

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I have a Synology DS211 with the latest software (5.1-5004 Update 2).

id2/3 tags look correct and the same as files that show in the webclient.

Isn’t it also strange that when I browse folders\Network that the Webclient doesn;t show any files?

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I think the the mount options and NAS are not the problem. I am using solaris with a ZFS-CIFS share and at the terminal the mounted folders are presented correct.
If I create the folder /music/MusicBox/test/aaa on the sd-card, the folder aaa is visuable in the browser-view. If I add /music/MusicBox/test/ööö, the folder test is empy in the browser, if I delete ööö under /music/MusicBox/test, the folder aaa is presented again. I also have this problem just in the Browse-Folder-View, in Browse-Album-View special signs are no problem. I am only able to produce this problems with special signs.
@Jacco: if you are starting a manual scan with root@MusicBox:~# mopidy local scan, is it reporting any errors for Dreadlock Holiday.mp3?

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Hi,

in case you did not try it yet, the bug regarding the two airplay devices has been fixed in 0.51.

Jochen

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The problem with Unicode characters is probably due to MusicBox’s broken (IMHO) locale support.
Log into MusixBox and run locale; you might see that MusicBox per default uses the POSIX locale, which cannot handle non-ASCII characters in path names properly.

Try running

apt-get install locales

and then from

raspi-config

select en_US.UTF-8 as the system locale. Reboot and check if that fixes the problem.

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Hi tkem,

Thanks for your response.
en_US.UTF-8 was already configured but I tried your fix anyway.
Unfortunately it wasn’t the solution.
It still don’t see all my songs.

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@markus_gregory: I did a local scan and didn’t get any errors on the songs I don’t see.

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Have also been having this issue, I thought maybe it was related to permissions. But apparently not. I have one folder appearing correctly, but a heated folder with about 20gigs of mp3s next to it, not appearing in network browse.

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Strange. Yesterday, I downloaded MusicBox RC, wrote the image to a new SD card, logged in as root via SSH, and the locale was set to POSIX. Also, I couldn’t use raspi-config to change the default locale out of the box, due to missing locales package. locales -a showed only C and POSIX locales available, if I remember correctly…
Did you do a fresh install, or did you upgrade MusicBox from a previous version?