Poor PlayList Performance

[Hyde]

I have an .m3u format playlist created by WMP11. It's around 600k in size.

I use it to give me random play of my music library.

But the PS3 takes an age to identify and load this file. It displays on the TV in a strange way in that I get one line with album art for each track interspersed with a line that says 'Playlist', e.g

Album Art > Artist > Track Name 1
Genric Art > Playlist
Album Art > Artist > Track Name 2
Genric Art > Playlist
Album Art > Artist > Track Name 3
Genric Art > Playlist
etc.

In addition, once it's played a track it takes an age for it to pick the next one.

Anything I can do to fix this please?

Sample M3u:-

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#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:0,ADELE - 21 - 01 - Rolling In The Deep.flac
..\Adele\21\ADELE - 21 - 01 - Rolling In The Deep.flac

#EXTINF:0,ADELE - 21 - 02 - Rumour Has It.flac
..\Adele\21\ADELE - 21 - 02 - Rumour Has It.flac

#EXTINF:0,ADELE - 21 - 03 - Turning Tables.flac
..\Adele\21\ADELE - 21 - 03 - Turning Tables.flac

[Hyde]

Would this extract of the log file help?

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[Thread-18] DEBUG 16:03:21.625 Sending ALIVE...
[pool-23-thread-1] DEBUG 16:03:24.796 Reading m3u playlist: PS3 Playlist.m3u
[New I/O server worker #1-1] DEBUG 16:03:24.953 Calling SetThreadExecutionState ES_SYSTEM_REQUIRED
[pool-23-thread-1] DEBUG 16:03:25.343 Adding M3U entry: [..\Adele\21\ADELE - 21 - 01 - Rolling In The Deep.flac,ADELE - 21 - 01 - Rolling In The Deep.flac]
[pool-23-thread-1] DEBUG 16:03:25.640 Adding M3U entry: [,null]
[pool-23-thread-1] DEBUG 16:03:25.656 Adding M3U entry: [..\Adele\21\ADELE - 21 - 02 - Rumour Has It.flac,ADELE - 21 - 02 - Rumour Has It.flac]
[pool-23-thread-1] DEBUG 16:03:25.703 Adding M3U entry: [,null]
[pool-23-thread-1] DEBUG 16:03:25.718 Adding M3U entry: [..\Adele\21\ADELE - 21 - 03 - Turning Tables.flac,ADELE - 21 - 03 - Turning Tables.flac]
[pool-23-thread-1] DEBUG 16:03:25.781 Adding M3U entry: [,null]
[pool-23-thread-1] DEBUG 16:03:25.781 Adding M3U entry: [..\Adele\21\ADELE - 21 - 04 - Don�t You Remember.flac,ADELE - 21 - 04 - Don�t You Remember.flac]
[pool-23-thread-1] DEBUG 16:03:25.828 Adding M3U entry: [,null]
[pool-23-thread-1] DEBUG 16:03:25.828 Adding M3U entry: [..\Adele\21\ADELE - 21 - 05 - Set Fire To The Rain.flac,ADELE - 21 - 05 - Set Fire To The Rain.flac]

And for some reason it's decided that today I'll get random pauses in the middle of tracks, clicks and ticks noises too. Driving me nuts. I don't get this from my Logitech Media Server with my Squeezebox units ?

[Raptor399]

Looks like unwanted entries are created for the empty lines in your .m3u file.
Fix committed.

Not sure if that will fix your problem, though.

[Hyde]

Cheers. Should fix the display issue at least. Do you know which build the fix will go into?

[Raptor399]

It will be in the next release.
There's no telling when that will be, though.

[Hyde]

Ah, okay. Just wanted to know when to test it. I'll try the nightly builds. Thanks.

[Hyde]

Display issues fixed in 1.52.1-SB69 at least, could have been in an earlier release but this is the version I jumped to.

However, when in shuffle mode it's taking around a minute to play the next track. After three tracks I got "Could not receive the content list" error message.

Nothing in the 'Traces' tab or debug log to suggest anything is wrong either

The above is using the Bravia 5500.conf.

if I select the playlist via the PS3 it appears to load just fine but reports that "The data is corrupted" for all files. This is using the PS3.conf