Playlists: initial set up, indexing processes and how to deal with issues

Playlists definition

Synology products will: 1) Play existing playlists 2) Generate a playlist for each folder of files

From Network Services > Multimedia Services, press Re-index. This will re-index
(does this generate the m3u files or simply make the m3u files available to the Synology Audio Player server?)

Issue	Cause	Workaround	Side effect
Existing playlists won't play	various	delete the playlist	Custom playlists are deleted
Playlists won't generate	Existing playlists block generation of playlist	Delete the playlist	Custom playlists are deleted
Unable to add to playlist	Adding is tried from a shared library, e.g. the iTunes server	unknown	unknown
/var/log/messages says synoindexd: playlist.c File exists. Skip remove it from database.	unknown	unknown	unknown
/var/log/messages says metamedia.c (146) Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate	unknown	unknown	unknown
/var/log/messages says Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate:	unknown	unknown	unknown
/var/log/messages says synoindexd: metamedia.c (72) Failed to get Misc Media Info from	unknown	unknown	unknown
/var/log/messages says metamedia.c (110) Failed to av_open_input_file() file	unknown	unknown	unknown

1) Login as root to your Synology product 2) grep synoindex /var/log/messages | more

In the instructions below we are going to move the playlists to a local drive instead of deleting them. You probably want to delete them completely.

1) Mount the share onto a remote machine 2) mkdir ~/m3u 3) find . -name '*.m3u' -exec mv '{}' m3u \;

4) Your Synology product should now automatically re-index all the mp3s. 5) grep synoindex /var/log/messages | tail -f