diff --git a/airtime_mvc/application/controllers/ApiController.php b/airtime_mvc/application/controllers/ApiController.php
index c22e63d55..94cb7e518 100644
--- a/airtime_mvc/application/controllers/ApiController.php
+++ b/airtime_mvc/application/controllers/ApiController.php
@@ -901,7 +901,7 @@ class ApiController extends Zend_Controller_Action
 
         foreach ($data as $pair) {
             list($id, $gain) = $pair;
-
+            // TODO : move this code into model -- RG
             $file = Application_Model_StoredFile::Recall($p_id = $id)->getPropelOrm();
             $file->setDbReplayGain($gain);
             $file->save();
diff --git a/airtime_mvc/application/models/Schedule.php b/airtime_mvc/application/models/Schedule.php
index fae6b5b94..eb538f57f 100644
--- a/airtime_mvc/application/models/Schedule.php
+++ b/airtime_mvc/application/models/Schedule.php
@@ -61,11 +61,13 @@ SQL;
     }
 
     /**
-     * Queries the database for the set of schedules one hour before and after the given time.
-     * If a show starts and ends within that time that is considered the current show. Then the
-     * scheduled item before it is the previous show, and the scheduled item after it is the next
-     * show. This way the dashboard getCurrentPlaylist is very fast. But if any one of the three
-     * show types are not found through this mechanism a call is made to the old way of querying
+     * Queries the database for the set of schedules one hour before
+     * and after the given time. If a show starts and ends within that
+     * time that is considered the current show. Then the scheduled item
+     * before it is the previous show, and the scheduled item after it
+     * is the next show. This way the dashboard getCurrentPlaylist is
+     * very fast. But if any one of the three show types are not found
+     * through this mechanism a call is made to the old way of querying
      * the database to find the track info.
     **/
     public static function GetPrevCurrentNext($p_previousShowID, $p_currentShowID, $p_nextShowID, $p_timeNow)
@@ -83,10 +85,16 @@ SQL;
             LEFT JOIN cc_show_instances si ON st.instance_id = si.id";
 
         $streamColumns = "ws.name AS artist_name, wm.liquidsoap_data AS track_title, ";
-        $streamJoin = "FROM cc_schedule AS st JOIN cc_webstream ws ON st.stream_id = ws.id
-            LEFT JOIN cc_show_instances AS si ON st.instance_id = si.id
-            LEFT JOIN cc_subjs AS sub on sub.id = ws.creator_id
-            LEFT JOIN (SELECT * FROM cc_webstream_metadata ORDER BY start_time DESC LIMIT 1) AS wm on st.id = wm.instance_id";
+        $streamJoin = <<<SQL
+FROM cc_schedule AS st
+JOIN cc_webstream ws ON st.stream_id = ws.id
+LEFT JOIN cc_show_instances AS si ON st.instance_id = si.id
+LEFT JOIN cc_subjs AS sub ON sub.id = ws.creator_id
+LEFT JOIN
+  (SELECT *
+   FROM cc_webstream_metadata
+   ORDER BY start_time DESC LIMIT 1) AS wm ON st.id = wm.instance_id
+SQL;
 
         $predicateArr = array();
         $paramMap = array();
@@ -118,8 +126,8 @@ SQL;
         $numberOfRows = count($rows);
 
         $results['previous'] = null;
-        $results['current'] = null;
-        $results['next'] = null;
+        $results['current']  = null;
+        $results['next']     = null;
 
         $timeNowAsMillis = strtotime($p_timeNow);
         for ($i = 0; $i < $numberOfRows; ++$i) {
@@ -478,8 +486,9 @@ SQL;
     }
 
     /**
-     * Compute the difference between two times in the format "HH:MM:SS.mmmmmm".
-     * Note: currently only supports calculating millisec differences.
+     * Compute the difference between two times in the format          .
+     * "HH:MM:SS.mmmmmm" Note: currently only supports calculating     .
+     * millisec differences                                            .
      *
      * @param  string $p_time1
      * @param  string $p_time2
diff --git a/python_apps/media-monitor2/media/monitor/metadata.py b/python_apps/media-monitor2/media/monitor/metadata.py
index 22968fcf0..bde17bc45 100644
--- a/python_apps/media-monitor2/media/monitor/metadata.py
+++ b/python_apps/media-monitor2/media/monitor/metadata.py
@@ -41,6 +41,18 @@ airtime2mutagen = {
     "MDATA_KEY_COPYRIGHT"   : "copyright",
 }
 
+class FakeMutagen(dict):
+    """
+    Need this fake mutagen object so that airtime_special functions return a
+    proper default value instead of throwing an exceptions for files that
+    mutagen doesn't recognize
+    """
+    def __init__(self,path):
+        self.path = path
+        self.mime = True
+        self.info = True
+        dict.__init__(self)
+
 # Some airtime attributes are special because they must use the mutagen object
 # itself to calculate the value that they need. The lambda associated with each
 # key should attempt to extract the corresponding value from the mutagen object
@@ -178,14 +190,20 @@ class Metadata(Loggable):
             return
         # TODO : Simplify the way all of these rules are handled right not it's
         # extremely unclear and needs to be refactored.
-        if full_mutagen is None: raise BadSongFile(fpath)
+        #if full_mutagen is None: raise BadSongFile(fpath)
+        if full_mutagen is None: full_mutagen = FakeMutagen(fpath)
         self.__metadata = Metadata.airtime_dict(full_mutagen)
         # Now we extra the special values that are calculated from the mutagen
         # object itself:
         for special_key,f in airtime_special.iteritems():
-            new_val = f(full_mutagen)
-            if new_val is not None:
-                self.__metadata[special_key] = new_val
+            try:
+                new_val = f(full_mutagen)
+                if new_val is not None:
+                    self.__metadata[special_key] = new_val
+            except Exception as e:
+                self.logger.info("Could not get special key %s for %s" %
+                        (special_key, fpath))
+                self.logger.info(str(e))
         # Finally, we "normalize" all the metadata here:
         self.__metadata = mmp.normalized_metadata(self.__metadata, fpath)
         # Now we must load the md5: