[mythtv-users] No FFWD in Mythmusic for recordings made after 9th June

[John Pilkington]

John Pilkington wrote:
> Hi:  I've only recently begun to experiment with Mythmusic, using it at 
> present as a very simple player.  I have a collection of mp2 files made, 
> mostly from recordings of dvb radio channels, with
> 
> 'mplayer -ovc=null -dumpaudio -dumpfile outfile.mp2 infile.mpg'
> 
> Mythmusic sees recordings made after 9 June as
>    "'Unknown Artist', 'Unknown Album', 'filename'";
> they play from the beginning but the progress bar is at full scale and 
> PageDown restarts playback instead of Fast Forwarding.
> 
> Earlier recordings appear as "'myth', 'foldername', 'filename'" and play 
> as expected.
> 
> This is on 64-bit fc10 running Yeechang's build of 0.21 fixes from 
> ATrpms.  At present I'm not sure what changed on the critical date, but 
> does anyone recognise what I might need to do to get back to the earlier 
> behaviour with a functional FFWD?
> 
I don't really understand this yet, but the track lengths were being 
read as zero.  After several variations on rescanning they now have 
realistic values and play as intended.  Sorry for the noise!

John P