[PROBLEM] moodeaudio 9.3.3 does not put the library

[Nutul]

If the spinner doesn't disappear it's ore likely MPD crashed, hence not telling the subsystem it finished scanning the library, so that the spinner could be removed. Question is; why?
Access restrictions to the share?
Instead of making the changes in the GUY and testing that way, I would go for the command line, where it is easier to change parameters and invoke the commands to connect to the share... once found one working (you can ls -la into it...) check the file and directory user AND access permissions.
More than this I cannot think of. I know it's time consuming and frustrating...

[TheOldPresbyope]

It seems to me it's time to close this thread. It was hijacked, is too long, and has wandered away from the original poster's problem.

Start a new one with an appropriate title---something like "MPD Vx.x.x doesn't scan my MacOS Vx.x.x SMB share", perhaps---when a more complete set of diagnostic data is available.

As an aside, back in post #32 I saw the following

Code:

Running "update library" now gives
2025-05-18T17:27:35 exception: Read failed: Cannot allocate memory
2025-05-18T17:30:12 exception: Read failed: Cannot allocate memory

That tweaks my Spidey-sense but I don't know what to do with it without supporting data.

Regards,
Kent

[Tim Curtis]

(...) I would recommend upgrading the SMB server where possible (...)

IMHO it would have sufficed to check the involved SMB protocol versions, and a choice been made accordingly.
In your specific case, searching on forums about MAC + SMB issues would have been appropriate.
Not to dismiss your issue in any manner, but there are hundreds of users out there (I for one) that have their libraries on perfectly working SMB shares...

Hi Nutul. This is exactly what I did to begin with. I tested various “vers=x.x” fitting with the supported dialects of my SMB share and it led nowhere.
I do not doubt there are working shares out there. I even mention in this thread that it works fine with a share from win11.
The point is that the smb protocol implementation of vers makes it a looping process to ensure you test all possible definitions and even then it wouldn’t work. So, if I could I would update the server. SMB should be able to auto-negotiate.
Furthermore: this is introduced by or along the kernel updates in the recent releases.
Maybe someone better at Linux and SMB can help pinpoint the cause at some point.
And last but not least MPD can’t see what’s happening (not even in verbose) so everything points to it being a subsystem. The only thing you can perhaps pin on MPD is that it goes into infinite spinner instead of timing out on the process.

As I posted earlier Samba is not part of the Linux kernel. 

Your previous posts indicate:
1. Your SMB share can be mounted successfully
2. MPD log shows "rescan" submitted but no "added..." lines (no tracks found)
3. There are no errors in the MPD log

This suggests a configuration or permission issue in your NAS / SMB

[boomblip]

This suggests a configuration or permission issue in your NAS / SMB

Yes. A configuration issue / permisisons issue that has surfaced with 9.3.x after the kernels were updated.
Close any thread suggesting that 9.3.x with the kernel updates introduced a breaking change to systems that were otherwise functioning.

Let me outline what is experienced across multiple threads on the forum with 9.3.x
0: ^^this was introduced with the kernel updates
1: Library reload / refresh gives in infinite spinner
2: The source files are located on an older SMB share. Sharing from e.g. a newer win11 share works AOK.
3: The files can be browsed and accessed via SSH to the Moode Audio system
4: In light of 3 (and empirically) it makes 0 difference setting e.g. "vers=x.x" argument.
5: The album art scanner has 0 issues scanning the entire share and generating thumbs etc., for all albums
6: The library is never scanned, no music is detected
7: Even with verbose logging MPD log doesn't log any lines to help explain things.
8: Multiple users are reporting it across several threads

Cheerio!

[Tim Curtis]

I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve with your posts that repeat the bogus claim about the kernel because the fact is that Samba (SMB) is not part of the Linux kernel and clearly this discussion is going around in circles.

Maybe someone will be able to reproduce your issue on a matching "older SMB share" but in the absence of that its best to close this convoluted thread.

Anyone that has issues connecting to a NAS share should post an individual thread with lots of detail about the NAS, error logs, network config, moode startup log etc. Thanks :-)