Permissions Music IP issue with squeezebox Linux

[animasantos]

Hi there,

I followed your excellent Music IP setup instructions on how to do this on Linux to integrate with squeezeboxserver. However, the MusicMagic server won't let me add Music. I think this is due to permission issues. Any advice on how to get it to scan?

thanks a load.

[Ian]

Hello there and welcome to the forums.

By default the permissions should be fine but maybe something has gone wrong along the way. So, please issue the following command in a Putty session and send me the output in your next post:

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ls -l FolderWhereYourMusicIsStored

Where FolderWhereYourMusicIsStored is the folder where your music is stored.

Thanks,

Ian.

[animasantos]

Thanks to your help, I realised I was putting the wrong thing in. I should have typed 'Music' rather than /home/user/Music. I do have another question. MusicIP loaded all the files, and I clicked Validate them all. It currently says:

Total songs 5,440
Mixable songs 5,057
Songs to validate 5,365
Validating tracks... [Cancel]

The number of 'Songs to Validate' goes down whule the 'Mixable Songs' goes up.
A few questions:
1. Do I have to wait for it to do all of these?
2. If so, can I do it while the computer is sleeping?
3. I have read about archiving the scan- how do I do that in case it corrupts?

Many thanks again for being so helpful.

Thanks a lot for your help.

[Ian]

Thanks to your help, I realised I was putting the wrong thing in. I should have typed 'Music' rather than /home/user/Music. I do have another question. MusicIP loaded all the files, and I clicked Validate them all. It currently says:

Total songs 5,440
Mixable songs 5,057
Songs to validate 5,365
Validating tracks... [Cancel]

The number of 'Songs to Validate' goes down whule the 'Mixable Songs' goes up.
A few questions:
1. Do I have to wait for it to do all of these?
2. If so, can I do it while the computer is sleeping?
3. I have read about archiving the scan- how do I do that in case it corrupts?

Many thanks again for being so helpful.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Hi,

1. Yes. At some point the "Songs to validate" will drop down to zero. At that stage you can then pull everything into SqueezeboxServer.
2. By sleeping do you mean "hibernate" or some other inactive state? If the former then no, the server must remain powered up and have access to the internet.
3. It's stored in /home/yourusername/.MusicMagic/default.m3lib. Just take a copy and save the copy somewhere else.

Hope this helps.

Ian.

[animasantos]

Amazing-thanks so much!

[Ian]

No problem sir, happy to help

[animasantos]

Sorry- having few more issues. I think the first Album scan only added some of my music. Is it possible to find out what songs are missing and add them at a later date? Thanks a lot.

[Ian]

Hi,

As far as I can work out, the only way to determine what's missing is to look at the albums available in the Squeezeboxserver interface. There's probably plenty of other ways but that's how I do it.

To add more songs at a later date, just go back into the MusicMagic web interface, paste the path to your music into the Add Music box and click Add Music. It'll then scan through your collection and once completed you can click the Start Validation button.

Any thoughts as to why it didn't find everything first time round? Permission problem maybe? Hopefully once you've determined what it did and did not add you can establish a pattern as to why some stuff didn't get added.

Good luck and please do come back if you need any help.

Ian.

[animasantos]

Thanks so much- It has now do9ne the scan but

1. I can't find that file anywhere for archiving. The only folder I have is MusicIP
2. I can't scan my SqueezeboxServer now- I think I have permissions issues. Therefore after a wipe and scan I have no music.

Thanks a load.

Greg

[Ian]

Hi Greg,

1. the folder is hidden but you can see it by issuing an ls -al command. So,

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ls -al /home/yourusername/.MusicMagic/default.m3lib

should display it. Is that not the case?

2. It might be a permission problem but everything should work by default. Have you done anything fancy to cause this? If you'd like to issue an "ls -l YourMusicFolder" command and send me the output I can take a look.

Have you configured the SqueezeboxServer interface to use the MusicIP plugin? Don't forget that you must leave the Music Folder field on the Basic Settings screen blank once the the MusicIP plugin is enabled.

Ian.