Exaile occasionally give message : "resource not found"

[tshann]

When playing Exaile (currently in Linux Mint Isadora from an self installed xfce desktop) it will randomly give the error and stop playing songs. It happens randomly, sometimes it can be hours before it happens. I've manually had it play .wma, mp4's and mp3's and it never has the error. It only appears to happen when it's just playing through a playlist.

After the error, if I just click the "next" button, it just goes on playing. I seem to recall the same error happened on this machine while playing lubuntu a few days ago. But the problem wouldn't let me play any songs. I installed a mess of codecs and the problem appears solved. So this issue MAY be some library or codec is the actual bug, but I don't know.

Peace

[Oz123 (nahumoz)]

I have the same issue with Debian Squeeze. Yesterday I was downloading and installing the new version of exaile, and since then, I can't play playlists. Exaile does not move to the next song on the list, claiming it can't find the resource.

I'm going back to the previous exaile version, didn't see it there ... :-(

[Lee (lee-eden)]

Same problem in ubuntu 10.4, but the "next" button doesn't help
I have found that the bug appears when I drag an album from the collection into the playlist, but does not occur when I find the files in nautilus and do "open with" exaile. I did recently install a new HDD and have copied the music to there (though it also remains in the original location) and now mount the new drive in the same /media/data location as the old one used to be. Maybe the library is confused, and I will see if I can work out how to start afresh with importing the library.

[Lee (lee-eden)]

That fixed it

So rebuliding the library was what was needed (edit>collection>remove>apply and then edit>collection>remove>add)

I think this bug could be closed if the error message was a bit more explanatory. I initially messed around with mp3 plugins etc thinking that maybe the format of the file was wrong or something. I also tried reinstalling exaile. If it had said "file not found" (and ideally also suggested "the file may have been moved - please try rebuilding your collection") then I'd have recognized that my HDD manipulation was the cause and gone about fixing it without all the other experiments.

So please: a more informative error message than "resource not found" !

[Carlos Furtado (uirapuru)]

I had the same problem and found that isn't really a exaile bug. It's much more a weakness in the management of non-native Linux partitions for ubuntu 10.04, as my NTFS partitions, which are only mounted when I access them. However, rhythmbox, which is the default ubuntu player can play songs on ntfs partitions without having to access them first. Thus, one can also say that is a deficiency in the exaile project. To summarize the solution: go to the songs' folder, thereby forcing the system to mount its partitions. Then, play the songs.

[Saurabh Gupta (bhaismachine)]

@Lee @Carlos Furtado : The suggestions you both gave are not going to completely solve the problem because there is another actual bug in exaile which can result in the mentioned error. Exaile 0.3.2 fails to delete songs from the playlist. Try deleting a song and saving the playlist. Now open the playlist and you will find that song again. Now even if you rebuild your library or mount your drives properly before playing songs it will give you the error "resource not found" if in case you actually delete that song from your system. So that error can arise because of an existing bug in Exaile which won't let you delete songs from playlists.

[Dale Horkey (horqua-gmail)]

Exaile occasionally give message : "resource not found"
Ubuntu 9.10 Exaile 0.3.1.0

This is no longer "Occasional"! It's full time. I can't use Exaile because it errors constantly.
Partition ofr music drive is Ext 4, not NTFS.
Tried this fix: "So rebuliding the library was what was needed (edit>collection>remove>apply and then edit>collection>remove>add)" and it didn't solve the problem.
If I knew more about Ubuntu, I'd revert to the older version, too.

[flameout (666maelstrom666)]

I was continuously getting the same problem too. I'm running Ubuntu 10.4 Gnome 2.30.2 and Exaile 3.1.1

"Resource not found"

All was working fine until I turned on my compy this morning and got that error (I used Shutdown). Removing the collection (the whole directory), then re adding it has worked.

If it happened once though, it will probably happen again. I really don't want to use another player so a fix would be great!

[aha (ndrhrt)]

My problem is similar. Exaile keeps forgetting about songs. Also I noticed that when I add songs, and then rescan the collection it does not always find the songs. With remove / add collection it recognizes the songs. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Exaile 0.3.1.1.

[mp (m-p)]

Confirmed in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Exaile 0.3.1.1. - now upgrading via Exaile PPA

[mp (m-p)]

!! - Confirmed in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Exaile 0.3.2.0 - only difference is that the error message now appears embedded in the main interface - with a "Close" button - rather than as a separate window.

I am not playing from library, but a playlist made up of files added via the file browser.

[mp (m-p)]

UPDATE: It now seems to happen after every track, making Exaile more or less unusable!

[Mathias Brodala (mathbr)]

Are you by any chance playing files from shares like Samba? These are known to be prone to errors during playback.

[mp (m-p)]

no.. USB/ext4

[Johannes Sasongko (sjohannes)]

Other media players are also getting this error, which usually means it's a problem in GStreamer or one of its dependencies. As far as I can tell, nobody has quite figured out what triggers the error.

[daniellibonati (libonati)]

I got the error but I realized it was because the file on the library was removed or renamed. Got it working by refreshing.

[Dustin Spicuzza (dustin-virtualroadside)]

Cleaning out old bugs. It's not clear whether this is still an issue in current exaile or if its a gstreamer issue, so if it is please reopen. I've never had this problem myself.