Music files disappearing from NAS !?

[GO-NAD!]

I started ripping my CD collection to my WD "My Cloud", as FLAC files, a couple of weeks ago. Then, a few days into the process, after ripping about 60 CD'S, I noticed that almost every album I'd ripped, was missing some tracks. I couldn't figure out why, so I re-ripped the missing tracks and kept going. Well, yesterday after reaching able 60 CD's, I noticed it had started happening again. Not as many tracks missing, but regardless, I'm not going any further until I know why and have it sorted out.

We had friends visiting last night and they mentioned that they had ripped their CD's to their laptop, as MP3's and the same thing had happened to them.

Any ideas as to how this can happen? It's quite frustrating.

 

[Alex2507]

That's what happens when you steal.

 

[Rickster71]

I'm wondering if it could somehow be a DRM issue.

 

[Alex2507]

I'm wondering if it could somehow be a DRM issue.

That's what I was gonna say but I didn't want it to come to light that I bought the entire collection of Bach's works for my sister and maybe had a bit of a similar issue with that batch of CD's. It's like a track or two gets recorded under a separate title or something. The vocabulary is above my pay grade ...

Another maddening issue is my inability to take the Dave Stewart/Candy Duffner Lily Was Here and burn it to another CD. The original CD plays fine but it's the only good song on the CD.

I think MDS spoke on this a long time ago, in a forum far far away, in a land before Twitter.

 

[Adam]

It's like a track or two gets recorded under a separate title or something.

That's what I'm wondering. I've seen that with compilation discs, too. I forget if it was the album name that showed up differently or something else.

 

[GO-NAD!]

I'm wondering if it could somehow be a DRM issue.

It crossed my mind, but I don't think so. It's only some tracks from the affected albums. And, the second time this happened, it was different tracks on different albums. Plus, if it was DRM, how could I rip them in the first place, and why does it happen after several days, and not right away? It could be DRM, but at this point, I doubt it.

I've posed the question on the WD My Cloud Forum and they're baffled too. It was suggested that I move my music files into a newly created folder on the NAS, as the preexisting Shared Music folder is meant for the Twonkey (whatever that is) Media Server. So, that's what I'm doing now. I hope that works, because it's very irritating.

 

[GO-NAD!]

Well, I've gotten through the last week without losing any more tracks. I switched off iTunes access to the NAS, but I don't know if that's the culprit, or not, but I've read complaints about iTunes playing big brother and after people have ripped their CDs. The accusation is basically that iTunes looks at the music you've ripped and goes, "Hey, that didn't come from us! It must be a pirated copy!" and promptly starts to delete it from the hard drive. I don't know if there's any merit to the allegation, but I don't need iTunes accessing my music anyway. I've also backed up my music on a separate USB drive, which I don't leave connected to the PC, just in case whatever has been deleting music files from the NAS decides to have a go at the USB drive, as well.

 

[3db]

Well, I've gotten through the last week without losing any more tracks. I switched off iTunes access to the NAS, but I don't know if that's the culprit, or not, but I've read complaints about iTunes playing big brother and after people have ripped their CDs. The accusation is basically that iTunes looks at the music you've ripped and goes, "Hey, that didn't come from us! It must be a pirated copy!" and promptly starts to delete it from the hard drive. I don't know if there's any merit to the allegation, but I don't need iTunes accessing my music anyway. I've also backed up my music on a separate USB drive, which I don't leave connected to the PC, just in case whatever has been deleting music files from the NAS decides to have a go at the USB drive, as well.

What a coinky dink!! That's why I despise Apple and Itunes.... I will not have their crap on my stuff dictating what I can or cannot have. Good on you .

 

[GO-NAD!]

What a coinky dink!! That's why I despise Apple and Itunes.... I will not have their crap on my stuff dictating what I can or cannot have. Good on you .

I still can't be sure if iTunes is responsible, but I haven't lost any more tracks, which is all I care about. I'm up to about 270 CD's ripped now, which is approximately half way now.

 

[jinjuku]

In the past I have instructed people to simply use proper access control list entries.

Setup an account that has the ability to write the directory. Then remove any other account/group including service accounts.

Use another account with read only to playback. Doesn't matter what iTunes (if that is the case) wants to do.