[Voyage-linux] MPD corrupting files?

[John Coltrane]

On 11/21/2013 01:42 AM, Bill Shurvinton wrote:
> 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.
too uncomfortable, huh ?!

good luck


>
> 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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