This isn't necessarily a "best practice", but merely what works for me.
I use the "Keep iTunes Music folder organized" option under "Preferences-Advanced" in iTunes. Sure, I could do the organization myself by creating subdirs, etc., but this feature is too convenient and I am too lazy, so I use it. Downside of this is that iTunes makes changes to the library dir/file structure any time you: -- Change a song title -- Change an album title -- Change an artist name -- Mark/unmark an album as "Part of a compilation". -- Change track/disc number Unfortunately, I find this frequently necessary because of errors in the CDDB database. So, trouble with SlimServer happens under the following scenario: -- You import a CD using iTunes -- SlimServer scans that new entry (I believe by reading the iTunes .xml library file, not sure if these are entered into the Slim tag database but I think so) -- You make one of the changes above in iTunes -- SlimServer rescans your iTunes library What happens to me in this case is that SlimServer will show duplicate song titles. Inspecting the file info shows that one of these is a pointer to the original song file/path, which no longer exists. As far as I could tell, this is what was causing my occasional high CPU usage. There is a reference to this general scenario in the Troubleshooting section of the FAQ: http://www.slimdevices.com/su_faq.html#troubleshooting-lockup Adding music in iTunes doesn't cause a problem. Creating/changing playlists doesn't cause a problem. Changing other iTunes song info like rating, comments, etc. doesn't cause a problem since Slim doesn't consider these without additional plugins. So, the safest thing is if you have been doing library management in iTunes, force a "Clear and rescan library" in SlimServer. Only by doing this will it remove the broken pointers to non-existent files. With a big library, it takes a while, so I usually do it before I turn in for the night. HTH. I haven't seen this exact discussion before, but that FAQ entry really helped me sort things out. gb -- gbreit ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gbreit's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4304 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21723 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
