Running in debug mode will show any errors with media files. Also, it's possible your desktop program supports more media formats than minidlna does.
You can use a script like this to figure out what is missing and go from there. Change DBFILE and MEDIAPATH. Make sure you have sqlite3.
DBFILE=/path/to/files.db
MEDIAPATH=/path/to/media
find $MEDIAPATH -type f -print0 | while read -d $'\0' FN
do
R=$(sqlite3 $DBFILE "SELECT COUNT() FROM details WHERE path =
\"$FN\"")
if [ $R -eq 0 ]
then
echo $FN
fi
done
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Hi
I am using Mdlna on Debian testing 1.2.1 Everything seems to work except that I seem to be missing songs substantially.
I added the same music folders (on Btrfs) to Cmus and Minidlna. All media is 777
Cmus 81481 songs
Minidlna 80031 songs (based on the web interface)
Now the difference might not seem alot given the amount of media but that is like 1450 songs missing if the stats are representational.
This is hard to debug I do not even know what is missing what.
Any ideas or recommendations?
Have you tried running in debug mode?
Well I did but I am lost, how am I supposed to debug a library that has almost 100k songs ;( I do not even know what I am missing.
I am guessing that minidlna is passing songs with some non standard characters.
Running in debug mode will show any errors with media files. Also, it's possible your desktop program supports more media formats than minidlna does.
You can use a script like this to figure out what is missing and go from there. Change DBFILE and MEDIAPATH. Make sure you have sqlite3.
DBFILE=/path/to/files.db MEDIAPATH=/path/to/media find $MEDIAPATH -type f -print0 | while read -d $'\0' FN do R=$(sqlite3 $DBFILE "SELECT COUNT() FROM details WHERE path = \"$FN\"") if [ $R -eq 0 ] then echo $FN fi done