If a file in the collection has too long a path it may be in the collection but there's clearly a shorter path limit in the playlist so /home/robert/Music/currListen/BBCMusMag/vol22/Elgar; James Ehnes, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, David Atherton, Susan Gritton, Andrew Kennedy, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, David Lloyd-Jones - BBC Music, Volume 22, Number 10: Violin Concerto _ The Spirit of England/01 - Edward Elgar - Violin Concerto in B minor, op. 61: I. Allegro.ogg (!!!) won't play, track details claiming it doesn't exist. File name was produced by ripping a cd with k3b If I rename the directory to a rather shorter name so /home/robert/Music/currListen/BBCMusMag/vol22/BBC Music, Volume 22, Number 10: Violin Concerto _ The Spirit of England there's an automatic rescan and the tracks in the playlist are no longer greyed out and can be played successfully (this is good!) Maybe a warning should be produced on adding the tracks or on a collection rescan that the files can't be played but are in the collection - or the playlist path name length limit should be the same as in the collection?
Thank you for the report! This one seems to be duplicate of 298413 so marking it as such. This was something I had a quick look at when doing the database updates some time ago, but there didn't seem to be much synergy, and this would have required more intrusive changes than the other db related bugs, so not fix yet. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 298413 ***