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Hi Peter,

I am a Fleet Foxes fan and have a problem with track 5 on their latest album (from Tidal):

https://tidal.com/album/74777930 (https://tidal.com/album/74777930)

When the album plays through to track 5 I get an error message saying the file does not exist.  It happens with the FLAC and MQA versions.  All other tracks are fine. 

Are you able to download the album and see if it plays for you?  It plays just fine when I stream it from the Tidal website.

Cheers,

Anthony

Hey Anthony,

I am quite confident that this is about this strange capital O in that track name. Not sure how to copy with that with "tweaking", but looking into it now ...

Regards,
Peter

Anthony,

It took a while because testing it takes time, especially when that track 05 is denoted MQA but internally is not or so, that resulting in a running track time which is double - 17:10 (it will exhibit slomo sound although I did not listen to it).

I see nothing like file does not exist, but in the log file a "File did not arrive in time" appears when the SFS setting it not large enough (it requires 4 in my case of 24/96 testing without upsampling), so mybe yiou refer to that. Anyway, the track normally plays but it iss not correct.
Do notice that this is the MQA version and that the normal version is not available on Tidal that I can find ...

Regards,
Peter

Hi Peter,

The dialogue box that pops up for me is

"Music Files does not exist (1):UnicodeTrack0001.wav.  Consider that the LAN is shut down during playback while you play a .WAV and have not set 'Copy To XX-Drive by standard'."

I have both MQA and FLAC versions of all Fleet Foxes albums on Tidal.

https://tidal.com/album/74777930

https://tidal.com/album/74710453


Sounds to me like it could still be the weird 'O' problem.

Regards,

Anthony

OK Anthony, I wasn't the smartest yesterday; I used your link and next saw one album only - the MQA and thought that was all (:swoon:). Now working on the other.

... which again plays but now also with Track 05 at the correct speed.

If you go to the folder where all is stored and observe all what's there, you should see the same (odd) characters in everything. So not only the track title (= file name) but also in the .mtt meta data. I suspect it is different somewhere in your system. If so, consider an "odd" disk organization.

Not sure what you can do with it, but know that the "=" in the track name is a replacement of something which can't be stored as/in a file name (could be ":" or "\"). So if that fails somehow, then, well, all fails. I never ran into such a thing but maybe in your system ?
As an extra check you may observe the Wallpaper Coverart - the back of it (see below). If it shows wrongly there it probably *is* wrong and exhibits what you experience.

Is playing the track solely Attendedly sufficient to copy the behavior  (click play on that track) ? - I tried Unattended as well starting with Track 04.

Best regards,
Peter

I can now report a solution.  I renamed track 5 (in Explorer) such that the funny 'O' is now a normal 'O' and the file plays.

Groovy.

I've had other files that would not play and now wonder if it was something to do with the filename and funny characters.

Thanks Peter.  My theory is that when the WAV file is written to send to the NOS1a that the funny 'O' causes that file not to be saved which causes the "Music file does not exist" error.  Perhaps a language setting in the OS or something like that.  At least I know now and in the future will rename files that don't play. 

All right Anthony, thank you for the feedback.
Best would be to solve it but I have no idea how "settings" as such influence this. Again, I have never heard of it.
I'd still opt for something with the disk organization. But then you must recognize you are using something not common for storage.

Best regards,
Peter