Beets with Plex?

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Ugh

So a while back I was convinced by a friend to install Plex. My experience has been less than the Awesomeness promised by said “friend”. In fact we hit a new low when our last-mile connection was taken down after a storm for repairs, Plex desktop could connect to the cloud to verify the account to connect to the server in the basement…

So as part of the re-think of my house media I am looking to get my music organized and found beets.
Got beets installed, did a basic config file as per the Getting Started Doc and then I ran into:

could not list directory /Media/Music/MeatLoaf-Very Best Of/CD 1/CD 1: Permission denied
and
unreadable file: /Media/Music/Once - Music From The Motion Picture/12 Glen Hansard and Marke?ta Irglova? - Once.mp3

Now I am pretty sure this is from the incredibly crappy permission settings required by Plex, but I’m a bit worried it’s far more sinister in that /Media/Music reside on a different server… My user has full permissions on that share but I’ve run into something like that before.

Please tell me it’s just Plex…

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It does indeed look like there is some permissions wonkiness going on. Can you verify that you have the permissions you think you have in these ways?

  • ls -ld '/Media/Music/MeatLoaf-Very Best Of/CD 1/CD 1'
  • ls '/Media/Music/MeatLoaf-Very Best Of/CD 1/CD 1'
  • touch '/Media/Music/MeatLoaf-Very Best Of/CD 1/CD 1/foo.txt'

Then you can delete that foo.txt, if it gets successfully created.

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@adrian

here are the results of what you asked for:

ls -ld /Media/Music/MeatLoaf-Very\ Best\ Of/CD\ 1/CD\ 1/
drw-r–r–+ 2 bert www-data 0 Jun 15 2010 /Media/Music/MeatLoaf-Very Best Of/CD 1/CD 1/

ls /Media/Music/MeatLoaf-Very\ Best\ Of/CD\ 1/CD\ 1/
ls: reading directory ‘/Media/Music/MeatLoaf-Very Best Of/CD 1/CD 1/’: Permission denied

touch /Media/Music/MeatLoaf-Very\ Best\ Of/CD\ 1/CD\ 1/foo.txt
touch: cannot touch ‘/Media/Music/MeatLoaf-Very Best Of/CD 1/CD 1/foo.txt’: Permission denied

I’m a bit confused how my user has rw permissions on the directory yet I can’t read or write to it.

My smb.conf file has my user listed as the valid user, and writable is set to ‘yes’.

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You will need the “execute” bit enabled to read directories. :slight_smile: Sounds like that smb.conf might need additional fiddling?

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@adrian
ah, I missed that, Thanks!
Nope not the smb.conf file but me chmodding the directories so Plex would work. 664 for directories and 755 for files or some such nonsense

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Hopefully the other way around (755 for directories and 644 for files)!

The 7 vs 6, 5 vs 4 is the execute permission needed to access files inside the directory.