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Topic: [PSA] very very low disk space = corrupted foobar database! (Read 297 times) previous topic - next topic
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[PSA] very very low disk space = corrupted foobar database!

I learned the hard way that if your C: drive is often very low on space, foobar may only partially write its "metadb" (metadata cache i think).
The symptom of this problem is a guaranteed crash when you open foobar and wait 60 seconds, when it tries to update metadb.
The metadb write fails, and since this exception is not handled by the devs, you get a crash.

You will have to go to %appdata%\foobar2000-v2 and delete metadb.sqlite. This will NOT touch your playlists or anything.
Opus is the only codec.
Except for FLAC. That one's pretty solid.