Hi Sonichouse
thanks for the reply, version of Firefly is shown in prefs as svn-1359
I just use playlists from itunes, a couple of the smart playlists are empty so I have deleted them to see if that makes a difference and have restarted Firefly, but am still getting error;
2007-12-24 14:53:22 (a000ed88): Starting playlist scan
2007-12-24 14:53:51 (a000ed88): Error parsing playlist: Offset 1: Expecting field name
2007-12-24 14:53:51 (a000ed88): Playlist 3164864 bad syntax2007-12-24 14:53:52 (a000ed88): Scanned 6039 songs (was 6039) in 30 seconds
2007-12-24 15:03:54 (a000ed88): Rescanning database
2007-12-24 15:03:55 (a000ed88): Starting playlist scan
2007-12-24 15:04:23 (a000ed88): Error parsing playlist: Offset 1: Expecting field name
2007-12-24 15:04:23 (a000ed88): Playlist 3164400 bad syntax2007-12-24 15:04:24 (a000ed88): Scanned 6039 songs (was 6039) in 30 seconds
2007-12-24 15:14:29 (a000ed88): Rescanning database
2007-12-24 15:14:29 (a000ed88): Starting playlist scan
2007-12-24 15:15:02 (a000ed88): Error parsing playlist: Offset 1: Expecting field name
2007-12-24 15:15:02 (a000ed88): Playlist 3164368 bad syntax2007-12-24 15:15:02 (a000ed88): Scanned 6039 songs (was 6039) in 33 seconds
2007-12-24 15:25:05 (a000ed88): Rescanning database
2007-12-24 15:25:06 (a000ed88): Starting playlist scan
2007-12-24 15:25:36 (a000ed88): Error parsing playlist: Offset 1: Expecting field name
2007-12-24 15:25:36 (a000ed88): Playlist 3164544 bad syntax2007-12-24 15:25:36 (a000ed88): Scanned 6039 songs (was 6039) in 31 seconds
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