Playlist issues
Node N130 (updated), network library on a NAS. Controlling from Windows and iPhone.
I had many .m3u files in my album folders. Scanning the network library added many of them (not all by a long way). I suspect that the device ran into some limit and stopped reading them.
Now I can't do anything with playlists, either BluOS playlists or Library playlists. When I create a new one and add a track, that works, but if I try to add another track to the same playlist it fails. The window pops up saying 'Add to playlist' but the name of the playlist is missing and nothing is added.
I deleted all the playlists from my folders and reindexed the music. The playlists refused to go away.
I tried to delete playlists individually, there is no 'Delete' option on the three-dot-menu.
The playlists still work (I can play them) but I really need to be able to create new playlists and use them.
Any ideas?
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Official comment
To delete a .m3u playlist, you need to delete it in the source (NAS or other) and do a "rebuild index" (diagnostics menu).
I think the "add to playlist" function is not working well. We wait for an update of the controller(s).
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It would be nice going forward, if:
1. The Library playlists database worked like the track database: If you re-index (without rebuild) it removes tracks that are no longer on the network share. If it found it on the network share, mark it as such and remove it when it goes away. If I am allowed to modify it (would be nice), maybe update the .m3u file it came from. I don't want to have to juggle playlists, backing up so I can rebuild my index (four hours) every time I need to delete/modify a playlist.
2. Obviously, adding tracks to a playlist is core functionality - without that you don't really have playlists. I don't believe this is a recent thing (ie since the update). I have been unable to make a playlist for the last few months, since I got the N130. It's kind of important, I would say. More important than rolling out an update that appears to have almost no significant improvements but many, many bugs. Maybe add playlist functionality as a priority? Is there another way to implement a playlist that I am unaware of?
3. There is some tricky finagling I have to do if I switch to a different NAS. I have to delete the share to the old NAS, make sure there is no 'phantom' share by rebooting the N130, delete the index, reboot the N130 again to make ABSOLUTELY SURE the network share is gone and forgotten, then delete the index and rebuild without a share, then add the new share and reboot/delete/rebuild again. It's likely that one or two of these steps could be omitted, but there's no way of knowing which step from the user manual. I was kind of hoping that just deleting one share and adding the other would allow a fast reindex and it would just work out that everything had moved. Yeah right.
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Hi Patrick
1 - This is the difference between a quick reindex and a purging rebuild index.
2. - https://support.bluos.net/hc/en-us/articles/360000204487 - Save your Queue
3. - NAS's are mounted as read only
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