[PROBLEM] Kodi randomly hangs while playing audio

[jakenl]

(9th Mar, 2020 12:06 AM)Nachteule Wrote:  If a process still holds a file open, umount will how work. So, please check which process keeps file open after you have stopped Kodi by running command sudo lsof /mountpoint/of/your/usbstick

Ah, I wasn't aware of this utility. However, stopping Kodi in these circumstances usually doesn't work. Whether I use 'kodi stop' or 'sudo service xbmc stop' the command won't finish. In normal circumstances these commands work as expected. Good chance that lsof will show a file lock by Kodi on the mp3 file that was playing during the crash, but still interesting to find out.

Quote:Yes, copy files to the 'good' stick would be good idea

I used the 'copy -R method to copy a certain segment of albums to that 2nd stick. I didn't add them to the library yet, to not confuse matters, and now play them by selecting them as files. It is playing as I type and I am now a few tracks further than this morning. Only in the 3rd track I heart a 'scratch' sound. I'll have to see afterwards if I can replicate this when I play the same file from another device on the network, like my laptop.

Quote:Or read all files from that 'bad' stick from the Pi with command

for f in $(find /mountpoint/of/your/usbstick -type f); do echo reading $f; cp -v $f /dev/null; done

plz note that this command can not deal with spaces in filename/dirs

Most albums have plenty spaces in them, but no problem. I have all albums stored on the PC as well and keep it there as a main source of data (with previous crashed USB-sticks in mind).