Kodi crashes when selecting Music view

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@wbeard52

I take that back. It is the WMA files that cannot be played.

I just checked old forum entries and it seems someone solved the problem when using kernel based SMB mounts instead the Kodi internal way. While it is totally not clear why that is Only a OSMC propblem it would be interisting to see if fstab mount solves it.

Maybe for testing purpose do a kernel base mount (either fstab or autofs) for the folder that contains the WMA file.

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