Error logs? (edit: fix for NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_METADATA_ERR (0x806e0006))

[gen-angry]

Hello, I have polaris installed via podman (which uses your docker container image). It works great for most of my music files, but a number of them will just refuse to play and display a red exclamation mark with a circle.

I tried looking at the container logs and I just have a list of files that have played. There is nothing stored in /var/log/polaris. Is there an error log somewhere else of some sort? Or an idea of why a good chunk of my music files will just refuse to play?

[agersant]

Hello! This most likely means that your music is in a format that your browser cannot decode. The Polaris server is sending the music files as-is without transcoding, and the web client relies on HTML audio for playback.

[gen-angry]

They're FLAC files. I ripped them used fre:ac from my own CDs, the other ones in the same album work ok.

Strange though, I'll try re-ripping them then. Thanks!

edit: meta data error. It was in the browser console. Thanks for the tip :)

just gotta reapply it with picard or something

[gen-angry]

After a whole bunch of searching: I found out that for some reason, if a FLAC file has ID3 tags in it, Firefox doesn't like it.

Configuring Picard to remove ID3 tags from FLAC files (Options -> Tags, Remove ID3 tags from FLAC files), then just opening the affected files, then saving it again seems to fix the issue.

Hopefully this helps someone who has come across this issue in the future.

[agersant]

Thanks for taking the time to research and document the issue!