Bad Syntax, any advice?

[Anonymous]

Hi All

my music keeps stopping on my Soundbridge, although connection ok.
Firefly log shows following:

2007-12-24 10:43:22 (a000ed88): Rescanning database
2007-12-24 10:43:24 (a000ed88): Starting playlist scan
2007-12-24 10:44:56 (a000ed88): Error parsing playlist: Offset 1: Expecting field name
2007-12-24 10:44:56 (a000ed88): Playlist 3351968 bad syntax2007-12-24 10:44:57 (a000ed88): Scanned 6039 songs (was 6039) in 95 seconds

Would welcome any suggestions on what may be causing this.

Thanks
Duff

[sonichouse]

Which version of firefly ?

Are you using smart playlists ?

If so, check through the web interface if any of them have a 0 count for the number of items.

[Anonymous]

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

Duff

[fizze]

You might want to bump up the debuglevel to 9 and then do a scan, that should identify the culprit playlist 😉

[Anonymous]

Thanks guys, looks like it doesn’t like playlists with a fullstop in the name, have renamed and all seems ok again.

cheers
Duff

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