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andrewski:
I'm having an odd problem with only a few tracks on my Rockbox-rockin' IAUDIO X5.

Only a very few files will consistently not play.

Some examples:
MUSIC/Jean Sibelius/The Complete Symphonies (Lahti Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor Osmo Vänskä) (disc 2)/01-Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43 I. Allegretto.flac
MUSIC/Jean Sibelius/The Complete Symphonies (Lahti Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor Osmo Vänskä) (disc 2)/02-Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43 II. Tempo Andante, ma rubato.flac
MUSIC/Jean Sibelius/The Complete Symphonies (Lahti Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor Osmo Vänskä) (disc 2)/03-Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43 III. Vivacissimo - attacca -.flac
MUSIC/Jean Sibelius/The Complete Symphonies (Lahti Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor Osmo Vänskä) (disc 2)/04-Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43 IV. Finale. Allegro moderato.flac

In this case, the first two tracks will play and then loops back to the first track. It shows "1 of 4" but only plays 2 tracks before looping.

There's another example involving files in the "Antonín Dvořák" folder, but I don't have them on my device currently and, for the life of me, can't get the filenames from my home machine right now. ::) Those files don't show up at all in the database.

Is it the long filenames or the special characters? Or what?

bluebrother:
is the path you showed the complete path on the player? FAT has a limitation of 255 characters for the filename including the complete path. Linux can create files that violate this limitation so maybe this is your cause?

andrewski:

--- Quote from: bluebrother on February 14, 2008, 03:28:47 PM ---is the path you showed the complete path on the player?

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Yes, I copied that directly from my player.


--- Quote from: bluebrother on February 14, 2008, 03:28:47 PM ---FAT has a limitation of 255 characters for the filename including the complete path. Linux can create files that violate this limitation so maybe this is your cause?

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Certainly possible; I don't think the players copying to it are minding any sort of filename length limit. I should be able to test if that's the case by moving those tracks into a higher-level folder, right?

(The odd part is that track 2 has a longer filename than track 3 though....)

MarcGuay:
If you play the 3rd track, does it play properly and is it labelled properly?  There's been an issue lately with the 3rd track and the last track not being played correctly and this would seem to fit.  Search the forums a bit (I think there might be a flyspray entry as well) or maybe just play around with the 3rd and last track in other folders to see if that has anything to do with it.


FS: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/8520

Lear:
The characters seem more likely, as the path isn't too long. If the files on the source computer use a funny encoding (like storing UTF-8 chars in the FAT long name), the strange chars can get corrupted in Rockbox. I think you can check that by going to the playlist viewer.

I once tried to figure out where the corruption happened, but wasn't successful...

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