First of all I apologize if this topic has been dealt with before but whenever I try to do a forum search for more than one keyword at a time, e.g. for the phase "large music library", the search feature does not work correctly. Therefore I feel compelled to start a new thread.
So... First, my setup: I'm running Slimsever version 6.5.4 on a Dell Dimension 4600 with an Intel Pentium processor rated 2.40GHz, 1 GB of RAM and Windows XP with service pack 2. My music library consists of four external USB hard drives: two 320GB drives, one 500GB drive and one 1TB drive. The main music folder is on one of the 320GB drives with shortcuts pointing to the other three drives. I do not use iTunes. The format for my music library is rather simple and consists of a separate folder for each "album" with multi-disc albums treated as one entry. Each external hard drive has a main music folder with subfolders for "jazz", "rock", "classical", etc. Within each of these subfolders is where I place each separate album folder. The vast majority of the music is stored as either flac or ape files. My libray stats are approximately 3500 albums, 2500 artists and 93,000 songs. I am currently using two Squeezeboxes and one Transporter, all connected to my server wirelessly via a Linksys router. The server (my PC) is wired to the Linksys router. Problems: The response of the server to various commands from any of the Squeezeboes or the Transporter can vary from reasonably fast to achingly slow. For example, when adding a new "album" to the library I use the "browse" command to search through the music folders until I locate the new album and then play it and each time I try to do this I end up having to go through the process twice since on the first try the "browse" command "freezes" at the genre level, i.e. the jazz/rock/classical subfolder level of a given disc. After a short pause the server returns to the "now playing" state and if I then run the browse command again I am then able to scroll through the jazz/rock/classical subfolder level to the album I am trying to add to the music library. This the major problem but at other times the server will momentarily stop playing, particularly if there is a heavy load being placed on my computer, e.g. file copying or some other cpu and/or disc intensive task. For the most part once an album is playing it will play fine. In addition, the search command works fine (as in reasonably fast) for albums or artists but runs super slowly if a I try to search for an individual song. I also use the lazy search plugin and the search speeds/responses are the same whether or not I use the lazy search or the normal search mode. The web Slimserver interface runs very slowly will not even display my library if the browse function is set for "albums", however, it will display when set for "artists". Finally my questions: Is the above behavior typical for "large" music libraries? And what exactly is considered a "large" music library? Would a faster cpu make Slimserver more responsive? Would using fewer but larger hard drives make Slimserver more responsive? For example a single 2TB Drobo. And finally, would switching to Slimserver 7.0 speed thing up? Thanks in advance for reading and hopefully responding. -- ralphpnj ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41006 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
