As i mentioned in another post, i put on eJukebox on random play before i go to bed.

However, last night i renamed an album folder - without rebuilding the database.
During the night, eJukebox tried to play a song from this album... it couldn't find it, gave up, and played the last song it could play .. forever and ever.

Imagine how it feels to be stuck in a nightmare where the same 2-minute song plays again and again and again... for eight hours straight.

For the sake of my sanity, please let eJukebox skip to the next working file instead. I beg you... my mind cannot handle another night of such unspeakable horror.

I also have experienced this kind of brainwashing, but luckly in the daytime. I am safe! Well, I think? ...

God, now this has happened two nights in one week. This night a quite calm jazz song played all night, but the week before, an angry, two-minute raging punk song from Hüsker Dü played all night long. In both cases i didn't realise it until i woke up and checked eJ, but i know it annoyed me still. Subconsciously, and in my dreams, this song haunted me.

I know the problem wouldn't occur if i rebuild all the time, but a much better fix would be to just let eJ skip until it found a file it could play, and then continue as normal.

I think you can wave goodbye to this subliminal madness you're experiencing.Don't know it's too late though. Don't know with you Pirk, but Junk has behaved quite weird lately Jackass inspired stunts and Self inducted pain as a result of that raging punk music I think..
Just kidding..

Fishy, as i still have my old eJukebox database, but not the mp3s... your blank mp3 will be very useful for me!! I just hope you haven't included any subliminal sound in it, in order to finish me off?


NB: For those who have read my last posts and possibly begin to wonder...: I just want to add that if i've lost my mp3s, it's only because of a crash of one of my hard drives. That can still happen to anyone...
I haved so many mp3s that all my hard drives was saturated! No more room for backups... Never do like me!

Under v3.88, when missing files are attempted to be played, added to the playlist, or auto-played they will be deleted from the database and the next song will play instead. So eJukebox will no longer suffer from playback stoppage or Winamp Open File Dialogs when encountering a missing file.

v3.88 also adds a "Remove Missing Files" function to the Update Database Manager. There is a new "Clean/Refresh" button on the manager that allows you to access this feature, which will quickly remove all missing files from the database.

Ah... lovely. The remaining stumps of my sanity might be kept safe after all.

Pirk: I've used the same tequnique for some time now.. Mp3's at all my partitions.. But your pain has inspired me to get hold of a new drive as fast as possible.. Been a lot of thunder and lightening up here lately ...

Junk: What sanity? Like you ever had one?

The remaining stumps, Fishy... the remaining stumps.

Fishy, i think it's a good decision... Personally, i regret to haven't buy another drive sooner, but it's a vicious circle: all these mp3s which wait for download! Well, concerning to me i think a new computer would be urgent! I would not to bring you bad luck but i've realized that hard drives are very fragile and espacially unforeseeable!!
If my misfortune can at least save others... that would comfort me a bit.

I'm just afraid that current computers be more noisy than my old PII, no?
Now it exists some 400Gb drives! I shake already...
Do you think 2 disks in RAID 1 Mirror is the best solution possible; or a 2nd drive reserved for manual backups is more secure?
Unless backup on DVD-RWs be the best solution? but it's boring with CDs...

Maybe this is a solution ???

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10118

1 Terabyte? only!?...
What insanity... i would prefer safety in first!

I think you are right jhlurie...

Maybe the manual "Remove Missing Files" function of the Update Database Manager would be sufficient. Or else, if at least the "auto-remove" function was optional...

Good point jhlurie,

We have updated it so that under v3.88 eJukebox does not remove missing files from the database if the file is on a networked drive...it will just skip over the song and play the next available one. The only time it will remove missing networked files is if you manually use the new "Remove Missing Files" button.

Thanks. It's just a fact of life with networks that you always have transitory problems.

BTW: Will it still know I'm using off a network if I'm using a mapped drive? I gave up UNC recently, because eJ seemed a bit friendlier with a mapping.

eJukebox will consider it a network file if it is on a mapped drive or a UNC...either way it will not automatically remove the file from the database if the network path goes down.