Music won't play on Roberts radio

[JimR]

Hello Famished Fish,

I may well be the bloke who started the previous thread that you referred to.

I have two Roberts radios: an iStream Revival and an iStream Revival 2. Love 'em both.

The good news is that they both now work perfectly with MinimServer.

The bad news is that it was a bit of a fight to make it so. Simon was of great help in this. If I recall correctly (it was a while ago), the solution was indeed around date formats and/or 'dodgy' characters in file names.

Being a little bit IT savvy, I wrote a Python script which munched through my NAS's file structure and:

a) Removed/replaced any potentially disruptive file name characters. Can't remember the full details without looking at the code, but basically I only left alphanumerics and a few extras such as brackets.

b) I looked inside each file at the date tag. For FLACs my code edited all files so they had a yyyy-mm-dd date. For the handful of mp3s I have, I set a yyyy date.

Not sure I ever fully established whether both of these were necessary, or whether just one would have been sufficient.

Now everything works fine.

If you are sufficiently into computers to install the necessary Python libraries then run Python scripts against your NAS files I will send you the code. (Take a backup first!). If not, I guess it depends on the size of your library whether this is possible to do by hand. Probably not. Maybe mp3tag could be programmed to do it?

Or maybe someone else has a simpler solution?

Jim.