It looks like my B2 is crashing after attempting to play a track.

[James Wyatt]

It looks like my B2 is crashing after attempting to play a track.

It may attempt to play for half a second, but the crash hammer comes down hard.

I've attempted it both via the Web UI & the knob.

[YouTube Video of the Issue]

I've updated it, as well as ran a fresh scan..

The tracks work. Fresh backup copies work fine.

Currently, It's shut down, to see if cooling it off might help.

James.

[Spike Haward]

Hi James

I have the same problem, with any album that I have manually added artwork according to Paul's previous instructions. 

I click on the track to play, the selection shows in the UI (including artwork), plays maybe a bar or two then crashes, and the UI reverts to a previously selected album/track, but to all intents and purposes locks up the UI until I rescan.

Deleting the manually added artwork from the album via NAS restores the B2 to normal working. (immediately too, without needing to rescan)

I am fairly certain that this is a recent bug, as I have had this artwork manually loaded for a while (unless maybe I just hadnt played those albums...)

Spike

[PMB]

Hi James,

Do you have coverarts as Spike is suggesting it might be a problem?

I don't have coverarts for all of my albums but the ones I do have were manually added using the pop up upload menu. All of these appear to play OK. The vast majority of my music is FLAC.

Paul

Brennan Support.

[Spike Haward]

Hi Paul
Tried another one last night. Album Dusty Springfield/Reputation and Rarities- no art showing so I 'snatched' an image from the Amazon site, added it using the UI pop up which add it as cover art.jpg in the track list as shown on NAS - and exactly same fault as previously described. The tracks are fine and play using NAS and a media player.
Once deleted, the B2 plays fine.
I checked using WinSCP that file permissions on the added .jpg were same as the rest an all checks out.

Spike

[James Wyatt]

I tried to delete the "coverart.jpg" for the last few albums I added, to no luck.

So I searched for coverart in the folder, highlighted, & deleted all of it.. (Always got a backup.)

It worked.. 

I noticed that SOME of the tracks that the album art was embedded in, show up to the right of the Track, Artist, Album box.

I've deduced that it's a smaller image. 324x324 seems to work. I plan on to do some testing to find the upper limit.

Embedding images into large FLAC files.. Can we say time consuming?

[Spike Haward]

Hi James/Paul

Cracked it, I think!

The problem involves the Enable TV UI switch. (which I had enabled)

I have now disabled that, and I can now add coverart manually and the B2 works fine.

On this subject, I see that if I drag/drop the artwork, the original name is carried across to the B2. The log shows checking (for artwork) failed, but it still displays on the UI. If I use the popup to add the artwork then the system automatically renames to coverart.jpg and the log reports the artwork found.

Spike

[James Wyatt]

Confirmed..

You Da'Man!

[Spike Haward]

Happy it did the trick, James
Regards
Spike