I've used Dynamic Playlists + Custom Skip for years now to give me Never Played Albums overnight. I have a dedicated Pi in the bedroom just for that purpose.
Apparently the main library.db got corrupted in a power outage a couple weeks ago, but deleting it and letting it rebuild fixed the problem. I had a couple nights of business as usual, but now (despite no further power issues) it simply refuses to add any new albums to the playlist. In fact, selecting Never Played Albums now results in the server becoming unavailable until I restart it. Nothing useful in the log, no indication that anything has gone bad, it just sits until I restart.
So I've got two questions:
1. At 117,000+ tracks, have I just outgrown the plugins?
2. Is there anything else that provides the same functionality? I want to be able to cycle through albums that particular instance has never played while skipping genres I use to identify the material as non-music.
3. Is it still possible to install the plugins (should I have to rebuild the whole thing) even though Erland seems to have left the scene? It's been so long now that I can't even remember what I did. I thought I had to show an additional repository on the plugins menu, but I don't see one there.
4. Are Erland's plugins compatible with LMS 8? (Just curious, the server in question is still on 7.9.2.)
While trying to track this down yesterday, I also noticed a very strange issue where I could see more entries in the log via the web interface than showed when I simply went in via SSH and viewed the log on a terminal window. Makes me wonder if at long last the microSD card has given up, though I'd expect to see more problems in that case.
Thank you!
Apparently the main library.db got corrupted in a power outage a couple weeks ago, but deleting it and letting it rebuild fixed the problem. I had a couple nights of business as usual, but now (despite no further power issues) it simply refuses to add any new albums to the playlist. In fact, selecting Never Played Albums now results in the server becoming unavailable until I restart it. Nothing useful in the log, no indication that anything has gone bad, it just sits until I restart.
So I've got two questions:
1. At 117,000+ tracks, have I just outgrown the plugins?
2. Is there anything else that provides the same functionality? I want to be able to cycle through albums that particular instance has never played while skipping genres I use to identify the material as non-music.
3. Is it still possible to install the plugins (should I have to rebuild the whole thing) even though Erland seems to have left the scene? It's been so long now that I can't even remember what I did. I thought I had to show an additional repository on the plugins menu, but I don't see one there.
4. Are Erland's plugins compatible with LMS 8? (Just curious, the server in question is still on 7.9.2.)
While trying to track this down yesterday, I also noticed a very strange issue where I could see more entries in the log via the web interface than showed when I simply went in via SSH and viewed the log on a terminal window. Makes me wonder if at long last the microSD card has given up, though I'd expect to see more problems in that case.
Thank you!