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I recently finished a working UMS install on Debian 10 with mount points to external NAS which holds my Multimedia Files (Audio, Video etc)
I use a Yamaha RX-A2040 for playing audio (MP3, FLAC, DTS/WAV) And the play fine............ but only 2 songs after each other, not the whole folder.

I have files (songs) placed into folders like: Artist/Album/songs
When I select the first song in an album, UMS starts playing and when the songs ends, it automatically starts the second song. But when this one is finished it stops, the third is not starting. UMS does this for al folders , MP3, FLAC, DTS/WAV. Especialy MP3 and FLAC folders only hold the album/songs as separate files without a cue list.

Other media players (PLEX, Windows Media Player etc) play all files in the specific folder after each other until the last song(file) is played, but UMS stops after 2 songs/files.

Is there a way to make UMS play the files after each other until the end of the songs/files?

In DTS/WAV i have some albums (not all) which contains 1 large file with all the songs. But this is not the fact for MP3 and FLAC

In theory the next track should play as long as the device is asking for it. Strange that it stops after 2.

To be of any help I will need to see your logs to know what is happening. See the section in red above.

I see from your previous posts that DTS is not supported on that device so UMS will need to transcode them. I don't know if this has anything to do with it.

I dont have the problem when I play MP3/FLAC from Plex. But plex does not support DTS on my Yamaha RX A2040.
I finaly got UMS to play/transcode DTS to my A2040 and I found out I can also stream radio stations with UMS. The A2040 uses vTuner, but this service stopped years ago. Also my Cable provider stopped FM over cable, so I was without radio......... until may 2025 and a fresh UMS install

Because MP3/FLAC does play continuously until end of album (directory) from Plex and not from UMS (only first and 2nd) and then stops. UMS does it for all audio (MP3, FLAC, DTS)

LOG file atrtached

For some reason those logs were not showing many TRACE entries although there were a few, plus I could not see anything playing so could not see what was requested.
The previous logs did show some music playing but appears to be on different devices and a mix of online radio and local files so can't get an idea what was happening.

One thing I noticed in both is that there is an error about missing libraries for MediaInfo so this will effect how the files are detected and handled.
This plus the fact that DTS is not supported on the RX-A2040 and needs to be transcoded means the actual file is not being seen by that player so it may also not see the rest of the files to be able to play the next one.

I don't know if Mediainfo is installed in Linux releases now due to the different distros but I have found some old threads about this like this and this.

Try installing MediaInfo using the instructions in the second link and if that does not fix it then make some new logs while you are only playing on the RX-A2040 showing that it stops after the second track.

Very strange things are happening.
At first boot, UMS did not do anything, I saw a message of low memory, so I increased from 1 to 2G memory (I run in VM) and then it would start.
When I start UMS for the first time, I don't have access to remote share (mount -a) shows that the access is available. After a reboot, the mount shares are available.
Playing DTS files stops after 2 times. Yes I know it won't native play on A2040, here comes UMS to the rescue (I thought) and UMS downmux / transcode it to hearable audio on my A2040

after installing MediaInfo the MP3 and FLAC files play until the end of the album/dir.
The DTS won't play at all anymore, I can select a file, but it does not do anything. When I do a "systemctl status UMS" I get (below), but no song is played.

Jun 10 14:05:17 ums UMS.sh[14496]: INFO 14:05:17.623 [StartPlaying Event] Started playing 02 - Money For Nothing.wav (No transcoding) on your RX-A2040
Jun 10 14:05:21 ums UMS.sh[14496]: INFO 14:05:21.136 [StopPlaying Event] Stopped playing 01 - So Far Away.wav on RX-A2040
Jun 10 14:05:21 ums UMS.sh[14496]: INFO 14:05:21.373 [StartPlaying Event] Started playing 03 - Walk Of Life.wav (No transcoding) on your RX-A2040
Jun 10 14:05:24 ums UMS.sh[14496]: INFO 14:05:24.855 [StopPlaying Event] Stopped playing 02 - Money For Nothing.wav on RX-A2040
Jun 10 14:05:25 ums UMS.sh[14496]: INFO 14:05:25.123 [StartPlaying Event] Started playing 04 - Your Latest Trick.wav (No transcoding) on your RX-A2040
Jun 10 14:05:28 ums UMS.sh[14496]: INFO 14:05:28.609 [StopPlaying Event] Stopped playing 03 - Walk Of Life.wav on RX-A2040
Jun 10 14:05:31 ums UMS.sh[14496]: INFO 14:05:31.223 [StopPlaying Event] Stopped playing 04 - Your Latest Trick.wav on RX-A2040
Jun 10 14:05:33 ums UMS.sh[14496]: INFO 14:05:33.150 [Media Scanner] Media scan completed in 63 seconds
Jun 10 14:05:33 ums UMS.sh[14496]: INFO 14:05:33.151 [Media Scanner] Database analyze started
Jun 10 14:05:33 ums UMS.sh[14496]: INFO 14:05:33.631 [Media Scanner] Database analyze completed in 0 seconds


When I play the Dire Straits FLAC Album, it playes all the files until the end of the album. ( I have separate MP3/FLAC/DTS folders/Albums)

Jun 10 14:05:33 ums UMS.sh[14496]: INFO 14:05:33.150 [Media Scanner] Media scan completed in 63 seconds
Jun 10 14:05:33 ums UMS.sh[14496]: INFO 14:05:33.151 [Media Scanner] Database analyze started
Jun 10 14:05:33 ums UMS.sh[14496]: INFO 14:05:33.631 [Media Scanner] Database analyze completed in 0 seconds
Jun 10 14:06:25 ums UMS.sh[14496]: INFO 14:06:25.103 [StartPlaying Event] Started playing 01 - So Far Away.flac (FFmpeg Audio) on your RX-A2040
Jun 10 14:11:23 ums UMS.sh[14496]: INFO 14:11:23.803 [StopPlaying Event] Stopped playing 01 - So Far Away.flac on RX-A2040
Jun 10 14:11:23 ums UMS.sh[14496]: INFO 14:11:23.809 [StopPlaying Event] 01 - So Far Away.flac marked as fully played
Jun 10 14:11:26 ums UMS.sh[14496]: INFO 14:11:26.832 [StartPlaying Event] Started playing 02 - Money For Nothing.flac (FFmpeg Audio) on your RX-A2040
Jun 10 14:19:50 ums UMS.sh[14496]: INFO 14:19:50.318 [StopPlaying Event] Stopped playing 02 - Money For Nothing.flac on RX-A2040
Jun 10 14:19:50 ums UMS.sh[14496]: INFO 14:19:50.331 [StopPlaying Event] 02 - Money For Nothing.flac marked as fully played
Jun 10 14:39:59 ums UMS.sh[14496]: INFO 14:39:59.400 [StartPlaying Event] Started playing 05 - Why Worry.flac (FFmpeg Audio) on your RX-A2040
ums@ums:/$

Ok the forum seems to be restored properly now

Continuous play is resolved for as far as I can detect. I installed mediainfo and increased the amount of system memory from 1 to 4 Gb. I thought 1 Gb would be enough for a Linux based UMS
Still my DTS audio won't play (anymore). In a first attempt (when playing stopped after 2 songs) I installed UMS new (to get rid of all the trying attempts and unnecessary files and installed)
I tried to compare both UMS.conf files, but cannot find what and where is it going wrong.