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Bug Reports / Re: Increase in music library file corruption - zero bytes or a few kb

« on: April 26, 2023, 10:53:10 PM »

Thanks Steven, what is the technical process flow that MB uses when sync'n/copying the files? The target format on my DAP writes to the specified naming template same with my phone. All artwork is embedded before the sync is performed.

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Bug Reports / Increase in music library file corruption - zero bytes or a few kb

« on: April 26, 2023, 08:33:40 AM »

hi,

I have been using MusicBee for a number of years now but of late I have noticed issues with some of the source library files getting corrupted.  Most of the size of my music is taken up by larger sized hi-res digital files up to DSD256 & PCM 24bit 384kHz resolution so some of the longer songs can be over 1.5GiB each in size. The latest song that corrupted & was reduced to only 2.2KB where the original song was 1.4GB is 12mins long & 24bit/352kHz resolution - it's the largest & longest song on that album.

What I have noticed when sync'n files to devices such as my DAP (digital audio player), phones, USB sticks for playlists etc. is that random tracks from the source music library some files either zero out in byte size and are corrupted (or much smaller file sizes of say only a few kb) & are no longer playable and will not sync to the device. The laptop is only a few years old (64GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM & i7-10875H - 8 core/16 Threads CPU so plenty of power) & all purchases are within the last 18 or so months running Windows 10 x64. There is no block corruption on the M.2 SSD volumes all with standard 4k block sizes at this point in time.

Has anyone else with large wav, flac or dsf file sizes or a larger library have these sorts of issues? I believe it this may be a MusicBee issue during sync'n but have not switched to any other hi-res player and tested over a long period of time to determine if the issue goes away or not. As I have 11.5k odd tracks & 908 albums totaling 947GB (& growing monthly) it is hard to keep track of when or how this happens. Only when creating burn-in or speaker/sub test playlists or sync'n to new devices do I notice songs (typically over 1gb in size) no longer being playable and the file size is zeroed out or reduced to a couple of kb. As most of the songs corrupting are larger than a CD containing a full album I am wondering if it is the file size causing the problem by MusicBee? May not be MB related but thought I'd pose the problem for feedback.

Not sure if it is a bug or something else. Some of the sites I purchase this music from (e.g. HDTracks) do not allow full access to all of my purchased files via downloads, so if I accidentally overwrite any files on the SSD with a corrupted source file I may have to buy the album again or have another SSD or storage device purely for my entire library backup - after validating every file size via PowerShell or something.

Cheers.

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General Discussions / Re: So how big is your music library?

« on: April 26, 2023, 03:36:13 AM »

hi,

My MusicBee stats list:
11,521 tracks
906 albums
947.03GB
This does not include my multi-channel hi-res albums as they are not in my MusicBee Library as they take up unnecessary space on my laptop (2x 2TiB M.2 SSDs).

I have been using MusicBee for years but of late I have noticed issues with some of the source files getting corrupted.  Most of the size of my music is taken up by hi-res digital files up to DSD256 & PCM 24bit 384kHz resolution (CD's are 16bit 44.1kHz) including multi-channel digital tracks so some of the longer stereo (6 - 7mins) songs are over 1.5GiB each in size. Some multi-channel songs are over twice that size or more each & my DSD512 songs are large.

What I have noticed when sync'n files to devices such as DAP (digital audio player), phones, USB sticks etc. that from the source music library some files either zero out or corrupted (small file sizes of a few kb) & are no longer playable and will not sync to the device.

Fortunately, I have a full backups on 2x 2TiB SSD drives that have my files for playback via a Lumin T2 (when not using Roon to output to) Network Player or the Reavon UBR-X200 universal disc player for the multi-channel digital music. SO i can copy them back.

Has anyone else with large wav, flac or dsf file sizes or a large library have this issue? I believe it is a MusicBee issue but have not switched to any other hi-res player to determine if the issue goes away or not.

Not sure if it is a bug or something else. Some of the sites I purchase this music from (HDTracks) do not allow full access to all of my purchased files via downloads, so if I accidentally overwrite any files on the SSD with a corrupted source file I will have to buy the album again or have another SSD or storage purely for backup.

Cheers
Me.