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The server had yet another problem, coincidentally when I was away from it for a few days...
The problem was completely internal. It happenes on May 6, this forcing me to revert to the May 5 backup.
As usual, and has been stated many times, when things get too complicated to repair, we revert to the last known good backup on a global basis / do not reimburse things lost since that chosen backup.
FYI we take full backups every day.
Sorry for the inconvenience. This particular problem was an internal one, not caused by a problem with players, and it has now been fixed.
-- Flash