[Voyage-linux] MPD corrupting files?

[Bill Shurvinton]

Not really workable though, as I copy music onto the disk every week and 
the mpd database is stored on it as the flash drive I boot from is 
small.  File system is ext3. Annoying part is that it all just worked 
until I changed the HDD.

Bill

On 20/11/2013 17:33, John Coltrane wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as a simple workaround you can mount your external drive readonly, so
> nothing can be corrupted, only thru hardware related probs, or by
> unclean unmounts from other systems (if your external drive is kind of
> shared)
> A question is, what filesystem is on your external device ? You would be
> well advised to use a native linux filesystem, not a crappy Microsoft
> one like FAT or NTFS
>
> -John
>
>
> On 11/19/2013 10:59 PM, Bill Shurvinton wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am running voyage 0.92 with MPD as my music streamer (the voyage-mpd
>> build won't boot, so had to use vanilla voyage then add mpd). All was
>> good until a few weeks ago when the USB connected HDD with all the
>> music on failed. I had a backup, so obtained a new HDD, copied the
>> music across from the backup and continued to rip and transfer music.
>> However all new rips that I transfer across become corrupted when MPD
>> scans them to add to the database and are distorted on playback.
>>
>> Having looked at the database and the log files I can see nothing
>> obvious so wondering if anyone else had seen something like this?
>> There is over 400GB of music and some 25000 tracks, so its a
>> relatively large collection, but nothing extreme.
>>
>> Rgds
>>
>> Bill
>>
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