from what i've worked out, it MMM does something like this ... - first, MMM generates a fingerprint for each song, taking about 10 secs per song - if MMM can find that song from the fingerprint in the online database then it can get the full analysis data from there (cos someone else has already done it for you and it's been uploaded to the online database!) - if the song is not in the online database then it takes roughly 80% of the playtime of the song to analyse
for me it took 3 to 4 days continuous running to analyse 2000 FLACs. it's hard to determine, but I think about half my music was not on the server. on the first pass, i switched slim off for the analysis. i now have it on again, but the analysis process does not work so well when both are on. which is a total pain in the arse as i add music all the time and i don't want to keep switching slim off. if slim is on when you're analysing, from my experience it will either slow it down massively or just grind to a halt completely. it also indicates slim is hogging the CPU rather than MMM (which seems strange). so i'm thinking of an alternative strategy where i do the analysis on my normal PC, archive the info into the tags, then upload to the server. which means the data is already there and MMM won't have to analyse. i don't really like this though, and it would be better if things worked with both services on at the server. thx. h. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of hunta Sent: 29 April 2005 10:06 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Re: MusicMagic, SlimServer 6.01 and SoftSqueeze 2.0b3 After more experimentation ('testing' would be too grand a word!) last night, I found that there was some progress, it's just extremely slow. I left my machine running MMM and SlimServer all evening, probably around 3 hours, and of 2,000 songs I had the 'mm' icon down to early 'C' entries. After another hour, most of the 'C's had been done. I don't know the precise alphabetical distribution of my collection, but this implies it's got a way to go yet. I've left it running today while I'm in the office. Hopefully it'll reach a point where SlimServer knows all about the MMM library and will then, with a sigh of relief, slip back into normal running. Does this fit with other people's experience when first introducing MMM and SS to each other? People have posted issues of 30 min delays when adding an album's worth of songs, but nothing about the initial scan. Maybe it's something with these particular versions - if you initially scanned your collection with earlier versions you're okay? That leads to another question. If I upgrade either MMM or SS, will I have to repeat this painful process? Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks, Andrew -- hunta _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
