Streamer losing its playlist, and Incorrect items showing in playlist

[simoncn]

(22-07-2014 08:49)rweten Wrote:  The switch is also on UPS. The only thing that could have got knocked over would have been the DS.

As an illustration, I was listening with a friend the other evening, and there was a sudden click, or (light) crack, and the music stopped. There was no other electrical interruption; the PC stayed running, the server stayed running and the DS was still up but with nothing in its playlist. No flicker from the lights, no report of interruption from the UPS, nothing to suggest power failure.

From your description, it sounds like you had a hardware issue that caused either a momentary power interruption to the DS or a momentary loss of connectivity between the DS and the switch. The former would cause the DS to crash and lose its playlist information. The latter would cause Kinsky to lose its playlist information even though the playlist information is still held within the DS. This might explain why the "lost" playlist titles reappear later.

Is it possible that your UPS is faulty and this has momentarily interrupted power to the GS108 switch? Another possibility is that the power supply or power cable of the GS108 is faulty and this is causing it to lose power momentarily. Either of these could cause the symptoms you described, including the subsequent loss of connectivity between MinimWatch on your PC and MinimServer on your NAS.

Edit: You could confirm the theory of a power loss to the GS108 by disconecting and reconnecting power to the GS108 while you are playing music. Does this cause the same set of symptoms that you are experiencing in the failure scenario?