[electricwildflower]

I have a rather odd problem i need some support and wasn't sure what part of the Forums i should post in or if it's even a Kodi problem or something else but thought i will ask

I have a setup which includes a Freenas server which is where i store a ton of media IE audio, video etc for streaming and a Raspberry Pi with Kodi installed for streaming said media, this all works well and fine BUT every time i connect to my server via Linux using SMB shares i keep finding artists albums renamed.

I have a dataset called "Audio" and in this i have a bunch of folders like this.

Artists
Compilations
Soundtracks
Other

and in the Artists folder we have a folder for each artist sorted by A to Z and in each artists folder we have the following folders

Bootleg
Compilations
Live
Studio
Single, EP
Other

As an example Audio/Artists/Adam & The Ants/Studio/Kings of the wild Frontier/Ant Music.ogg

Now the problem is folders keep randomly renaming there self to something such as today i went to copy a CD rip to Dr Feelgood/Studio/ and found one of the album folders renamed itself to ST1RFJ-H. This only happens to folders that sit under 

Bootleg
Compilations
Live
Studio
Single, EP
Other

No other folders do it, when ever i go to copy any CD rips to their desired designation i will randomly come across an album has randomly renamed it's self to something like the example above. I'm not sure what is causing it to randomly select an album folder and rename but it's frustrating and i dread to navigate to my server because i might find a lot more has renamed it'self. 

I popped onto the Freenas Forums to be told it's not Freenas but it's an external program or something that sees the media that's doing it. And the only Media player i use is Kodi to stream stuff so i need to work out is Kodi the cause of it if not i can eliminate Kodi of the list and continue to work out the problem.  If it is causing folders to randomly rename is there a solution or am i chasing the problem in the wrong place

Thanks in advance for your support

[Karellen]

I popped onto the Freenas Forums to be told it's not Freenas but it's an external program or something that sees the media that's doing it.

Fortunately it is not Kodi either. Kodi does not modify files or folders.

There is a setting as shown in section 2.4 here... https://kodi.wiki/view/Settings/Media/General#Files but it does not happen automatically and it is disabled by default. It only carries out the changes you request. I cannot think of an add-on that does this either.

[electricwildflower]

Thank you for the reply

Cheers at least i know it's not Kodi so i can eliminate that from the mix, the next step is to work out what's doing it see of to the Linux forums i go lol.

[electricwildflower]

Completely forgot to reply

after extensive research, trying different methods i decided to remove Kodi from Retropie and re install and low and behold it's been 3 days now and not a single file has changed it's self in anyway. I believe although i could be wrong is that i had xiaomi (i think that's what it's called) album art activated besides the universal scraper and it may of caused issues or something.

Either way it has solved the problem

[Karellen]

Thanks for letting us know.

I'll mark this solved.

[Karellen]

Thread marked solved.