This seemed like as good a thread as any. After upgrading to slim
server 6.5.0, the Random Mix settings tab only lists indices for the
different genres, not the actual names of the genres. Has anybody else
seen this?
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KJAWolf
KJAWolf;164107 Wrote:
This seemed like as good a thread as any. After upgrading to slim
server 6.5.0, the Random Mix settings tab only lists indices for the
different genres, not the actual names of the genres. Has anybody else
seen this?
How did you upgrade? You need to uninstall
Robin Bowes;163692 Wrote:
roydy wrote:
After some digging, I found the problem is some sort of bad
interaction
between slim and mysql. Slimserver has run for a long time on the
same
machine, a slow 1.6GHz PC with 768M of RAM. With ver6.5, the start
of
every song caused the activity
roydy wrote:
Robin Bowes;163692 Wrote:
Was this after the initial music library scan had completed?
Yes. In my investigations, I spent awhile trying to figure out if there
was some sort of interaction with virus scanning. Eventually I disabled
virus scanning and found the problem was
Robin Bowes;163711 Wrote:
roydy wrote:
Robin Bowes;163692 Wrote:
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No, I don't mean virus scanning, I mean the initial music library
scan.
When you first fire up slimserver and set the music directory it does
a
full music folder sxcan. This can hog CPU until
Try enabling the diagnostics described in the server performance section
of http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?DiagnosingPerformanceIssues to
see if it reports what is running slowly and post back.
I would go with the latest 6.5.1 nightly though as this has fixed
several performance issues so
roydy;163631 Wrote:
I've been happily using slimp3 for a long time (rev 1.3 firmware),
however my recent upgrade to slimserver 6.5 has caused me all sorts of
problems with skipping at the beginning of almost every song. The
problem was not the network: my slimp3 runs over a 100Mb/s wired
The machine is slower than it sounds; the machine uses PC133 RAM and
runs WINXP SP2. On the other hand, the machine basically does nothing
except run slimserver for 880 albums and 12K songs.
My apologies if I missed the right threads about this.
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roydy
I realize I didn't actually answer the question: its some slow version
of a P4.
roydy;163645 Wrote:
The machine is slower than it sounds; the machine uses PC133 RAM and
runs WINXP SP2. On the other hand, the machine basically does nothing
except run slimserver for 880 albums and 12K songs.
