Thank you, Ron. The songs.db is back up.
Unfortunately problems persist:
1) Not serving songs: SB still outputs: “Unable to play “name of song”” and neither Banshee (full stop sign) nor Amarok (“No suitable input plugin. This often means that the url’s protocol is not supported. Network failures are other possible causes”) can play songs. Both sw players play flac natively, so it is not a transcoding issue only.
2) No database update – last month’s entries into Music Folder not reflected and accessible.
Valdemar