Hey,

So, i have spent all morning trying to work out this little "feature" of mine which has been present for the last month or so.

The Problem: Files stored in my root /mp3s/ folder generally do not play. Some do, some dont.

What i have learnt and done so far:
1) First i found which files played and which files didnt. It seemed random at first, so i moved all the files into a folder, and refreshed the database.

2) This did not fix the problem, so i looked at the list more carefully, and found that the files with Album tags, even those with "-" in the tag, played, whereas the files with no album tag did not play. So i added the directoryname to the album tag of those files affected using tag&rename, and refreshed the database.

3) The files had an album tag no, and still refused to play. I fiddled with the outputs, trying various combination of output, dsps, and settings. With no avail.

This is occuring to ALL files with no album tag. Oh bugger...

A co-incidental occurance i think, was that this began at a simular time to a full disc defragment.

Computer setup:
Realtek Onboard sound using most recent drivers.
Foobar 0.8.3 - with Play Count, Album List and the complete plugin pack.


Any ideas or diagnostics i can try to find the cause of this problem?

Hmm no idea how and why the album tag could affect playability. Precisely.. do you get an error when playback starts or you just hear no sound? Also, do they play in other players?

The files are fine. I can open with WMP and Zoom Player and the files are fine.

I get no errors in the console when they play and it plays normally, except there is simply no sound, and no movement on the spectrum visualiser.

Well, apparently the Album list and Playlist Tree components are unrelated.

Files do play fine in Winamp 5.11 (which i just reinstalled last night after a lot of swearing).

Database nuke and refresh did not help. I have a component called Play_Count, which edits the tags/database entries for each song based on how they are played, possible it could be causing problems?

Hmmm. Post your replaygain settings and replaygain values for one or two of these "plays, but without audio or spectrum activity" tracks, please?

ssamadhi97, you're a genius.

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=20444

ah ha....

I get what you are getting at. I ran Replaygain by album. But, with these not being in an album.

bitrate = 256
channels = 2
codec = MP3
enc_delay = 576
enc_padding = 2184
mp3_accurate_length = yes
mp3_stereo_mode = stereo
replaygain_album_gain = -7.22 dB
replaygain_album_peak = 1475798784.0000
replaygain_track_gain = -9.22 dB
replaygain_track_peak = 1.047282
samplerate = 44100

bitrate = 128
channels = 2
codec = MP3
mp3_stereo_mode = stereo
replaygain_album_gain = -7.22 dB
replaygain_album_peak = 1475798784.000000
replaygain_track_gain = -3.53 dB
replaygain_track_peak = 1.102894
samplerate = 44100

the album peak seems a bit high compared to files that play...

bitrate = 192
channels = 2
codec = MP3
mp3_stereo_mode = joint stereo
replaygain_album_gain = -5.89 dB
replaygain_album_peak = 1.103956
replaygain_track_gain = -5.19 dB
replaygain_track_peak = 1.055930
samplerate = 44100

Reading that other thread, am giving the files a rescan using replaygain - as track, not as album. Sorting using $if($strcmp(%__replaygain_album_peak%,1475798784.0000),A,Z) didnt show which file was affected though. I am working through the rest.

However, redoing the replaygain is fixing it nicely!

Have you tried this? $if($strcmp(%__replaygain_track_peak%,1475798784.0000),A,Z)

Yeah, wasnt doing any sorting unfortunately.

The exact replaygain process i used quite sometime ago was by selecting EVERY file on my "All songs" playlist (This is basically a dump from Playlist Tree which lists every audio file on the music drive).

I did all of them as multiple albums, and redid this shortly before the problem began.

So, stripping the replaygain info from the no album folders, has helped. And i am redoing it on a per track basis.

I am assuming the Sort by code should rearrange the files so that one file will be at the top, will match the value for the peak. None of the files changed position before i stripped the replaygain info.