Solved Issue Crash when playing video, Remote Communication Server Fails to Start upon relaunch

(2012-08-02 09:47)Memphiz Wrote:  What makes you so sure that XBMC supports embedded Art? (not sure but i have never read anything about it)

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Embeded art in audio files should be supported, as opposed to embedded covers in M4V.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Add..._Album_Art

My XBMC kept freezing before it was done "Loading media info from files". I closed/reopened XBMC several times, and restarted my computer (not the NAS though) and always it would eventually freeze. The last time it was running while i was sleeping (for around 6 hours) and when I woke up it was stuck on an Aerosmith song (so it didn't get very far). The first time it froze was on a Phoenix song so its getting worse and worse as well. Usually the scanning of the video files finishes before it crashes, but not this morning: the progress bar for "Downloading new movies" was frozen about 10% in. I closed it and reopened it again before I left for work but I'm not optimistic its going to finish. I guess I'll have to delete the music.db files and start from scratch, cause I'm out of ideas...

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(2012-08-02 11:58)pecinko Wrote:  

(2012-08-02 09:47)Memphiz Wrote:  What makes you so sure that XBMC supports embedded Art? (not sure but i have never read anything about it)

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Embeded art in audio files should be supported, as opposed to embedded covers in M4V.

Yeah, all my music is in mp3 format with ID3 tags, unless there's some issue with different versions of ID3 tags...

Though I can't be totally confident in anything that's happening until the my XBMC library can finish this "Loading media info from files"...

(2012-08-02 16:19)seth.feinberg Wrote:  Yeah, all my music is in mp3 format with ID3 tags, unless there's some issue with different versions of ID3 tags...

Though I can't be totally confident in anything that's happening until the my XBMC library can finish this "Loading media info from files"...

Easy to test - install XBMC Eden final on PC. Scan music files to library. All good? Test network, nfs, mysql on the same setup. All good?

(2012-08-02 17:26)pecinko Wrote:  Easy to test - install XBMC Eden final on PC. Scan music files to library. All good? Test network, nfs, mysql on the same setup. All good?

XBMC Eden IS on my PC, I guess if XBMC has again frozen i'll blow out the Music.db files in the userdata folder and the MySQL music db and try to scan a dummie folder directly on my pc before I start the process over again. I'll report back...

(2012-08-02 18:17)seth.feinberg Wrote:  ... i'll blow out the Music.db files in the userdata folder and the MySQL music db and try to scan a dummie folder directly on my pc before I start the process over again. I'll report back...

Yup, that was exactly what I had in mind but probably failed explaining myself properly

(2012-08-02 19:05)pecinko Wrote:  Yup, that was exactly what I had in mind but probably failed explaining myself properly

Ha! no you were fine, I think I was mostly thinking (typing) out loud. Well I blew out my MySQL db, but I didn't see one for music in the database folder of my xbmc userfolder (strange...). I loaded the 2Pac folder onto my desktop and after reopening xbmc, scanned it into the library. Low and behold, all the cd covers show up in XBMC. Sooooo now I dunno what's going on. I guess I'll to just recreate the steps from before and hope it goes smoother this time. I'll report back.

(2012-08-03 00:16)seth.feinberg Wrote:  

(2012-08-02 19:05)pecinko Wrote:  Yup, that was exactly what I had in mind but probably failed explaining myself properly

Ha! no you were fine, I think I was mostly thinking (typing) out loud. Well I blew out my MySQL db, but I didn't see one for music in the database folder of my xbmc userfolder (strange...). I loaded the 2Pac folder onto my desktop and after reopening xbmc, scanned it into the library. Low and behold, all the cd covers show up in XBMC. Sooooo now I dunno what's going on. I guess I'll to just recreate the steps from before and hope it goes smoother this time. I'll report back.

So in other words your advancedsettings still point to a MySQL server and the music database was recreated on the server, instead of local userdata directory. What is different is your music is now on your local hard drive to which you actually have proper permissions.

So stop fiddling with the file ownerships and whatnot.

(2012-08-03 08:31)toiva Wrote:  So in other words your advancedsettings still point to a MySQL server and the music database was recreated on the server, instead of local userdata directory. What is different is your music is now on your local hard drive to which you actually have proper permissions.

So stop fiddling with the file ownerships and whatnot.

Indeed that was what the test was meant to expose. However I removed the desktop 2Pac folder from my Library, blew out the MySQL db again and changed my sources.xml music source back to the nfs share on my NAS. scanned the source to my Library overnight and shockingly I woke up this morning with all the the album thumbnails in xbmc! All with ZERO changes to file permissions or really changes of any kind outside of just deleted the MySQL db and starting from scratch. I'd be more frustrated if I wasn't so happy that its fixed, now if only I could find a program that autamagically downloads Artist thumbs and fanart for all my music (aka a Ember Media Manager for Music)...

Now to see if moving the thumbnail folder actually fixed the crashing issue on the Mac Mini, stay tuned for the next enthralling installment of Idiot with a Keyboard.

Thanks everyone for your help!

well everything SEEMED to be working fine, but, still, whenever I load up XBMC I get the same "Loading media info from files..." and it chugs through all my Music files until it inevitably stalls before it even gets to the B's usually stalling the Video library update in the process. I uninstalled every music library add-on I could find but it still does it. Only turning off "Update Library on startup" stops the madness. But I would really like to update my music library on some sort of automatic schedule, what I don't understand is why it appears to be going through ALL my music on every start up, and not just those files/folders that were updated. Though I do suppose this is almost certainly a different problem than what I started this thread about so perhaps I should start a new one...

Edit: So I downloaded the new Universal Scraper and disabled ANY reference to allmusic. I saw in the add-ons that the allmusic scraper was broken and allmusic was still listed as the Default service for album and artist information. At the same time I excluded all @eaDir files from the scan and listing by putting those XML items into the advancedsettings.xml. I re-enabled the "Update Library on startup" option for Music closed and reopened XBMC. This time the "Loading media info from files..." seemed FLYING through my collection and I thought my problem was solved. But it froze again, this time on Fountains of Wayne, and F is much much farther than it had ever gotten before. The "Downloading movie information" update box also froze and when I shutdown XBMC (either my the power button on the home window or pressing "S" and then choosing Exit, it hangs and when I click on it Windows says the program is not responding and asks me if I want to force close it. Here's a debug log (I needed to upgrade my Pastebin Acct to Pro to upload it):

http://pastebin.com/tUDfYmXE

Are you serious?

Thread title says crash playing video, further you say it's on os x and mac mini. Then music scanning is problem, then it's ok with local content.

Now, you say that everything was fine but problem popped up eventually. However you forget to mention that you moved to network source and changed os x for a windows in the meantime?