Playlist doesn't play on Volumio 3, but does on Volumio 2 - Music on NAS

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I have two Volumio players. Both run on Raspberry Pi’s. One is running Volumio 2 (2.907) while the other is running Volumio 3 (3.785). Both use music from an NAS that is mounted to each one.

I have 10 playlist files. Once each one worked I copied them to the other system.

The problem is that the Volumio3 player will not play any of the playlists. But the Volumio2 player plays them all with no problem.

I have putty’d into each system and can see the playlists in the /data/playlist directory. The permissions, creation dates and sizes are all the same. At first observation, the playlist items seem to be identical.

I can look at the first song on a playlist on the Volumio3 player and navigate to the album and song and it plays just fine. So the connection to the NAS seems to be ok. I can also play albums on the Volumio3 player without problem.

So I’m trying to understand why the Volumio3 player does not play the songs in the playlist.

Other observations:

  • when looking at the playlists on the Volumio2 player via the webpage, most (but not all) songs show the albumart icons, but the same playlist on the Volumio3 player shows the default icon for all songs
  • albumart icons show up fine when looking at the list of albums
  • the Volumio3 player had no problem playing the playlists until I upgraded it to Volumio3 (I have been through a couple of versions).

Looking for a clue as to why this is happening.

Thanks,

Rick

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most probably the required playlist format is different between Volumio2 and Volumio3

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Found and fixed the issue! The formats for Volumio2 and Volumio3 playlists did not change.

I created two playlists. One on Volumio2 and one on Volumio3 using the same 3 songs. Comparing the two showed that the path to the songs were different.

The issue was the “Alias” setting for the NAS. In the Volumio2 UI, you had to specifically name the Alias, IP Address and Path. In Volumio3, when it found a network drive, you can just click on the NAS and it automatically populated the “Alias” setting using the path in the NAS.

I resolved the issue by selecting the NAS, but manually entering the Alias value I used in Volumio2 and then it rebuilt the music library. After that, the playlists from the Volumio2 player worked just fine.

So it was my problem for not paying close enough attention to the settings when connecting to the NAS on the Volumio3 player.

Rick

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Your correct. The alias is part of the path used in the playlists.
Glad you resolved it by yourself!