I also have experienced a significant performance increase by moving to Linux to run my squeezeserver. My library is currently ~33,300 tracks. I use MusicIP, so when I add tracks, I add them to MusicIP which in turn automatically adds them to squeezeserver. The process takes about 10 minutes and would be faster if I wasn't using a USB thumb drive as my boot/OS drive.
As my library has grown, I have not noticed an increasing sluggishness in any of the interfaces (SBC, WebUI, Moose, etc.). Regarding the subthread that has developed in this thread, like others here I'm a music junky too. I got my first CD player in '88. Between listening to music in my car and at home after the kids go to bed, I listen to music at least 5 hours a day. I perfer to listen to music than watch TV. Music is my "thing"; my obsession. I must buy around 100 CDs a year. This goes in spurts as I dive into new genres. For example, after watching Ken Burns' miniseries on Jazz, I dove into Miles Davis, Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, etc...plenty of purchase opportunities there :-). After watching it again recently, I've expanded into Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Louis Armstong, etc. Have I listened to it all? Yes, at one time or another. And I do often go back,though it may be years later. I can say that I've managed to never purchase a CD I already had unless it was intentional (e.g. remasters). Which realy surprises me. Lately, I don't attribute this to my incredible memory (which isn't so incredible :-) but to making all of my purchases online. If I'm not sure, I just pull up the SC WebUI and have a look at my library. -- maggior Rich --------- Setup: 2 SB3s, 4 Booms, 1 duet, 1 receiver. SuSE 11.0 Server running SqueezeCenter 7.3.3, MusicIP, and SqueezeSlave. Current library stats: 30,015 songs, 2,448 albums, 451 artists. http://www.last.fm/user/maggior ------------------------------------------------------------------------ maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75205 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
