MediaPortal crash in Music Now Playing (1 Viewer)

[dint10]

Hello - I would like to report what I suspect to be a bug.

I hope this is the right place to post this?

I have just built my new HTPC. I installed latest build of MP and latest StreamedMP. I updated patch from within StreamedMP.

So - the problem I have encountered is this:

I have a very large music collection on a NAS. When I go to music view and browse to a particuilar artist and then a particular album all is fine. I can listen to that album no bother. However - if I then select the 'now playing' option MP instantly crashes and disappears completely leaving me at the Windows Desktop.

It was some time before I noticed in task manager that mplayer.exe was still running. I need to kill that before crash log generated.

I should point out this happens only with specific music files [mp3 file]. 99% of my collection [tested so far] works fine - indeed, I have only been able to recreate the problem with two albums. Not unreasonably, one might suspect the issue to lie with the mp3 files and not with StreamedMP but I launched MP in de-bug mode [with default MP skin] to see if same error would occur. I can not get error to repeat in this mode - 'now playing' option works fine.

I can ONLY repeat this error in StreamedMP.

So - I can live with this, knowing to avoid the 'now playing' option when listening to these [that I have found so far] two albums, but I thought I would tell you about it anyway in case it could help future builds. I have attached logs.

I am going to delete these two albums and re-rip them from CDs [I sill have them ALL in my loft] and see what happens.

Finally, I would just like to say I have only recently come to HTPCs and Media Portal and StreamedMP in particular and I am just absolultely knocked out with how good it is. A huge well done and thank you.

d

 

[trevor]

Re: Streamed MP: Community Mods & Bug Fixes

Hi,

The actual error is 'Illegal characters in path' and is crashing with MP main code and looks like you were playing 'Y:\Music\Neil Young\Long May You Run\01 - Long May You Run.mp3'?

I can see nothing wrong here so this is maybe a red herring.

Running MP is debug not only switches to the Blue3 skin but also disables all 3rd part plugins, a better test would be just to switch the skin to blue3 and re-run the tests and then post the logs.

This will eliminate the skin but still keep all your plugins enabled and I think the problem is with one of the 3rd party plugins.

If you could try just switching the skin and let us know the results.

Thanks

Hello - I would like to report what I suspect to be a bug.

I hope this is the right place to post this?

I have just built my new HTPC. I installed latest build of MP and latest StreamedMP. I updated patch from within StreamedMP.

So - the problem I have encountered is this:

I have a very large music collection on a NAS. When I go to music view and browse to a particuilar artist and then a particular album all is fine. I can listen to that album no bother. However - if I then select the 'now playing' option MP instantly crashes and disappears completely leaving me at the Windows Desktop.

It was some time before I noticed in task manager that mplayer.exe was still running. I need to kill that before crash log generated.

I should point out this happens only with specific music files [mp3 file]. 99% of my collection [tested so far] works fine - indeed, I have only been able to recreate the problem with two albums. Not unreasonably, one might suspect the issue to lie with the mp3 files and not with StreamedMP but I launched MP in de-bug mode [with default MP skin] to see if same error would occur. I can not get error to repeat in this mode - 'now playing' option works fine.

I can ONLY repeat this error in StreamedMP.

So - I can live with this, knowing to avoid the 'now playing' option when listening to these [that I have found so far] two albums, but I thought I would tell you about it anyway in case it could help future builds. I have attached logs.

I am going to delete these two albums and re-rip them from CDs [I sill have them ALL in my loft] and see what happens.

Finally, I would just like to say I have only recently come to HTPCs and Media Portal and StreamedMP in particular and I am just absolultely knocked out with how good it is. A huge well done and thank you.

d

 

[dint10]

Thank you very much Trevor for such a speedy reply.

I tried as you suggested and just set Blue3 as my default skin.

Same results as when in debug mode though - everything works just peachy in this skin.

Since it didn't crash out in this skin no logs - unless I can export them another way?

BTW - I have noticed a slight error in my directory structure on my NAS:

The album in question is by a group called 'The Stills-Young Band' and I have that album in a folder called 'Neil Young'. Really, the album should be in a folder called 'The Stills-Young Band'.

I'll create that folder and move album and see what happens.

Thanks again.

 

[jameson_uk]

looking at the stack

   at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIPropertyManager.SetProperty(String tag, String tagvalue)
   at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicPlayingNow.UpdateTrackInfo()

I am guessing this is a property used in streamed MP that is not used in B3W, most of which come from tags. Trevor what properties are used in now playing?

Either way this sounds like a bug in MP so I will have a look

 

[trevor]

Thank you very much Trevor for such a speedy reply.

I tried as you suggested and just set Blue3 as my default skin.

Same results as when in debug mode though - everything works just peachy in this skin.

Since it didn't crash out in this skin no logs - unless I can export them another way?

BTW - I have noticed a slight error in my directory structure on my NAS:

The album in question is by a group called 'The Stills-Young Band' and I have that album in a folder called 'Neil Young'. Really, the album should be in a folder called 'The Stills-Young Band'.

I'll create that folder and move album and see what happens.

Thanks again.

The actual naming of the directoy should not cause this sort of issue, as jameson_uk pointed out this is more likley to be a tag related issue.

Can you please confirm dos this happen on the Now Playing Screen and if so which version of that screen are you using? If you are unsure please post your usermenuprofile.xml (C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal), can also get tomthis from the User Config Files link in the top left corner of MP Configuration.

thx

 

[trevor]

looking at the stack

   at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIPropertyManager.SetProperty(String tag, String tagvalue)
   at MediaPortal.GUI.Music.GUIMusicPlayingNow.UpdateTrackInfo()

I am guessing this is a property used in streamed MP that is not used in B3W, most of which come from tags. Trevor what properties are used in now playing?

Either way this sounds like a bug in MP so I will have a look

That depends on which of the 6 or so is being used, but there is nothing but basic tags used - I am thinking that there maybe a corrupt artist or cover image or similar.

When I get confirmation of which screen I will extract the tags

Thx

 

[dint10]

To confirm:

I do not actually make it into 'now playing' screen.

What happens is - I will select album, and then the track. I will be listening to said track.

I then open menu to select 'now playing' option.

It's when I then click OK that MP crashes.

I'll upload usermenuprofile.xml when I get back home.

Thanks

 

[dint10]

Hi Trevor,

Here is the XML file you asked for.

Hope it helps

Thanks

d

 

[trevor]

Hi Trevor,

Here is the XML file you asked for.

Hope it helps

Thanks

d

Thanks, I forgot to ask for StreamedMPConfig.xml from the same place - can you also please post that.

Thanks

 

[dint10]

Here you are.

D