Finally found some time to look at this.
As a test I went to edit a SQL Playlist in the SBS screen
Once I click the edit button, it takes about 30 seconds before the edit
screen appears
During this time the main figure that shoots up is the %wa - which goes
consistently to around 70%-80%.
Onc
Thanks - I'll do some digging and see how I get on.
For info the database is on the SDHC card not on the disk. I have a 1TB
disk formatted to NTFS with the music library on it. Is this optimal? I
did wonder whether formatting the disk as EXT3 would have any noticeable
effect.
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stevedresden wrote:
> This is an interesting thread.
>
> I purchased Erlands plugins and I use Multi-Library, SQL Playlist and
> Dynamic Playlist to manage a library of about 50,000 tracks
> (multi-libray config has it split into two libraries with an
> intersection of the two providing a third
This is an interesting thread.
I purchased Erlands plugins and I use Multi-Library, SQL Playlist and
Dynamic Playlist to manage a library of about 50,000 tracks
(multi-libray config has it split into two libraries with an
intersection of the two providing a third library)
I am on the last versio
batka wrote:
>
> Got a new Touch and for me it's lacking some basic customization
> options.
> I would think of the following features, can your plugins provide them?
> a) "Now Playing" screen:
> - When it's displaying the 3 lines, I want to include the Track number
> in first line, before the T
Hi Erland,
Got a new Touch and for me it's lacking some basic customization
options.
I would think of the following features, can your plugins provide them?
a) "Now Playing" screen:
- When it's displaying the 3 lines, I want to include the Track number
in first line, before the Track title. (Beca
prabbit wrote:
>
> 4. I ran Database Query to look at how "healthy" my LMS/TrackStat
> environment is. Frankly, according to the queries, it's not very
> healthy. There are a lot of duplicates with musicbrainz IDs (919), there
> are numerous TrackStat inconsistencies, and a couple of Custom Scan
erland wrote:
> When that day comes I'll make sure there is a solution.
>
> In worst case you can manually specify your License Manager account
> identity in the necessary configuration files, but my intention is to
> provide a better solution than that before Logitech shutdown
> mysqueezebox.co
05mattjax wrote:
> Sorry to gate crash this thread but as it's active I though best to seek
> advice here rather than starting a new thread. I have been using album
> art for 30 day free trial and wish to purchase the licence. If
> mysqueezebox.com goes down will the licence and album art still w
Sorry to gate crash this thread but as it's active I though best to seek
advice here rather than starting a new thread. I have been using album
art for 30 day free trial and wish to purchase the licence. If
mysqueezebox.com goes down will the licence and album art still work? I
say this because yo
goharbourview123 wrote:
> Perhaps this is also a matter of how TrackStat and Spicefly Sugarcube
> play together?
For clarity there is no interaction between SugarCube and TrackStat.
Enabling the TrackStat option within SugarCube just informs SugarCube to
look for the TrackStat table data within
prabbit wrote:
> My system does have the RAM for it.
OK. Ug understand now.
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pallfreeman wrote:
> Increasing the cache size is (arguably) pointless if you don't have
> enough physical memory for it. If you're already using virtual memory,
> you don't. So I'm not quite sure how greater virtual memory helps with
> performance. A faster drive, sure, but not a bigger paging s
prabbit wrote:
>
> 1. The 1 TB HDD allows for a greater virtual memory for the server,
> which seems to help with performance. [...]
> 2. I did increase the cache_size in SQLLiteHelper.pm like pallfreeman
> suggested. That should help some.
>
Increasing the cache size is (arguably) pointless i
After the power surge I replaced the 80 Gb HDD with a 1 TB HDD. This
allowed me to move my music from an external HDD to the internal HDD. I
figured this would improve some operations. So, I moved the collection,
cleared the LMS database, deleted all caches, rescanned my collection,
reestored the
sander wrote:
> Adding more thread drift, albeit in a new direction, what do you gain
> from the musicbrainz tags? I'm experimenting with the mirror sever for
> stuff like jaikos, but I've found anything interesting in their tags.
To be honest, so far nothing. I tried to use SugarCube (even boug
prabbit wrote:
> I'll turn on the MusicBrainz option to get the restore done
Adding more thread drift, albeit in a new direction, what do you gain
from the musicbrainz tags? I'm experimenting with the mirror sever for
stuff like jaikos, but I've found anything interesting in their tags.
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erland wrote:
> There are two options in TrackStat settings page which can be used to
> disable the refresh operations after startup and rescan, there is
> another one which you can use to disable musicbrainz_id support, it
> might be worth a try to try to use these options before uninstalling it
pallfreeman wrote:
> And yet a lot of people pay a lot of money to Big Iron vendors to buy it
> and use it.
Not to store music collections.
> But a restore can take a long time and you're out of action while it
> happens.
>
> If you've ever been screamed at by a pointyhead because your restor
TheLastMan wrote:
> I think keeping synchronised copies of critical data is underrated. Much
> better than RAID and unlike "backup" does not need to be "restored" as
> the data is instantly available and uncompressed.
>
> I use a little utility called "ViceVersa" to synchronise my music,
> docum
garym wrote:
> There are lots of contexts where immediate access, no down time,
> redundant storage is mission critical (banking, web commerce (e.g.,
> Amazon), air traffic control, etc.). Immediate access to one's music
> collection is *not* mission critical. And I'd note that I've read lots
>
garym wrote:
> Immediate access to one's music collection is *not* mission critical.
That, my friend, surely depends on one's mission in life? :-)
>
> And I'd note that I've read lots of sob stories at the ReadyNas forums
> where unfortunate users assumed that simply using RAID is an adequate
pallfreeman wrote:
> If you've ever been screamed at by a pointyhead because your restore is
> taking a while, you get redundant storage.
There are lots of contexts where immediate access, no down time,
redundant storage is mission critical (banking, web commerce (e.g.,
Amazon), air traffic cont
JJZolx wrote:
> Regular backup - yes. "Dedicated, redundant" storage - nearly worthless.
And yet a lot of people pay a lot of money to Big Iron vendors to buy it
and use it. Linux devs are rewriting ZFS just to change the license, and
Microsoft are (as ever) stealing Sun's ideas and dumbing them
pallfreeman wrote:
> Nobody in their right mind would trust 180K tracks to anything other
> than dedicated, redundant storage with a regular backup.
Regular backup - yes. "Dedicated, redundant" storage - nearly worthless.
JJZolx wrote:
> Performance is much closer using local storage, or accessing a share on
> a Windows machine.
Nobody in their right mind would trust 180K tracks to anything other
than dedicated, redundant storage with a regular backup.
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sander wrote:
> Look at the directory scanning:
>
> Windows XP VM reading SMB mapped drive:
> Discovering files/directories: N:\Music (180735 of 180735) Complete
> 02:08:30
>
> Ubuntu 10.4 reading NFS mounted volume:
> Discovering files/directories: /c/media/Music (180784 of 180784)
>
sander wrote:
> I really need to go back to Linux.
No argument there.
Do you ever see weird filenames using Windows mounts? Doesn't happen
with NFS.
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pallfreeman wrote:
> If the comments in SQLiteHelper.pm are correct, dbhighmem changes the
> cache from 2MB to 20MB.
> Simply inserting a couple of 0s in there (cache_size = 2000 changed to
> 20) allows the whole db to reside in memory. Easy unless you're
> running Windows.
Well I had an Ub
prabbit wrote:
> I'm going to uninstall TrackStat until a solution can be found. Let me
> know if you need a beta tester for your ideas.
>
There are two options in TrackStat settings page which can be used to
disable the refresh operations after startup and rescan, there is
another one which you
I'm going to uninstall TrackStat until a solution can be found. Let me
know if you need a beta tester for your ideas.
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prabbit wrote:
> I sent you my log file via e-mail. It took an hour for TrackStat to
> update urls in statistic data based on musicbrainz ids.
>
Thanks, it looks like it's the refresh query I suspected that's causing
all the problems.
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erland wrote:
> Sometime when you have the time, it would be great if you enabled debug
> level logging on "plugin.trackstat" and "plugin.customscan" in LMS
> Settings/Advanced/Logging and also select the "Save logging settings for
> use at next application restart" and then restart LMS and send
sander wrote:
> It would be even better if there was a field where we could put a
> parameter. I'll have to see if there's a bug...
+2. But:
First, it would be classed as an "enhancement", so immediately it's
given low priority.
Second, it involves adding a new preference. For some reason the
pallfreeman wrote:
> With just the default plugins, 200K+ tracks occupy about half a gig.
> There should be a "dbhugemem" pref.
It would be even better if there was a field where we could put a
parameter. I'll have to see if there's a bug...
sander wrote:
> Why should this make a difference? I chose Windows because of the
> MusicIP stuff (1.9 beta goodies, compatible with 1.4 genpuid) maybe I
> need to reconsider? I have thought the smb access to my nas could be an
> issue as well, but my workstation is pretty fast.
>
Windows versio
pallfreeman wrote:
> Easy unless you're running Windows.
Why should this make a difference? I chose Windows because of the
MusicIP stuff (1.9 beta goodies, compatible with 1.4 genpuid) maybe I
need to reconsider? I have thought the smb access to my nas could be an
issue as well, but my workstat
sander wrote:
> It also seems there are no other changes that can be made to sqlite
> which will help along the same line as moonbase's tweaks to mysql.
If the comments in SQLiteHelper.pm are correct, dbhighmem changes the
cache from 2MB to 20MB.
Simply inserting a couple of 0s in there (cache_
I'm only using trackstat so that makes sense. I'm still exploring your
plugins, but I was primarily interested in trackstat, dynamic playlists,
and sugarcube (not your problem of course) so that's most of what I'm
using. My problems so far are hard to attribute to anything specific,
but I do think
sander wrote:
> I can't believe I came across this thread. I'm going through the same
> issue after parking at 7.3.4 for a couple of years with only
> musicip/sugarcube on my readynas pro (low end dual-core x86), I've
> recently moved to 7.7.2 and I'm going through the same growing pains. My
> ol
I can't believe I came across this thread. I'm going through the same
issue after parking at 7.3.4 for a couple of years with only
musicip/sugarcube on my readynas pro (low end dual-core x86), I've
recently moved to 7.7.2 and I'm going through the same growing pains. My
old system had a couple of
I've also been having long start-up times with TrackStat (up to 20
minutes), and periodic pauses in playback with the server apparently
unavailable (I think caused by Spicefly Sugarcube's interaction with
TrackStat). Initially, I'd taken to disabling "Refresh on Startup" as a
way around this, but
pallfreeman wrote:
> Just a thought: do you have dbhighmem enabled?
> (Settings->Advanced->Performance)
Yes.
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prabbit wrote:
> My LMS server is running on a Mac Mini 1.83 Ghz Core 2 Duo with 3 GB of
> RAM. Right now any scan or server start up takes at least an hour.
Just a thought: do you have dbhighmem enabled?
(Settings->Advanced->Performance)
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The culprit is Trackstat. More specifically I think it is TrackStat and
Musicbrainz IDs. I removed the plugins in this order: Custom Scan, Multi
Library, TrackStat. After removing Custom Scan and Multi Library it
still took about one hour to start up the server. After removing
TrackStat it was abo
prabbit wrote:
> This thread gives me something to look into. I only have ~21,000 tracks,
> but I use many of Erland's plugins (Multi Library, Custom Scan,
> TrackStat), and while playing songs is fine, the database queries are
> dreadfully slow. I'm actually in the process right now of trying to
This thread gives me something to look into. I only have ~21,000 tracks,
but I use many of Erland's plugins (Multi Library, Custom Scan,
TrackStat), and while playing songs is fine, the database queries are
dreadfully slow. I'm actually in the process right now of trying to
figure out which plugin
lrossouw wrote:
> I had a PC loaded XP as my server. The hardware was (and is) dying a
> slow death. Some mmemory modules died and I was left with 1GB.
> Something else went wrong (can't remember what) and I decided to switch
> to Ubuntu on this machine. This is my first Linux experience. I
I had a PC loaded XP as my server. The hardware was (and is) dying a
slow death. Some mmemory modules died and I was left with 1GB.
Something else went wrong (can't remember what) and I decided to switch
to Ubuntu on this machine. This is my first Linux experience. I do
believe that the Squee
> The point is if you are working with a relatively low-memory
> underpowered machine, a hardware upgrade (particularly, a memory
> upgrade) may yield substantial results in Custom Browse performance.
Thanks. Yes, I got your point. Since I already have a Win XP PC with
rater decent specs, a fairl
vagskal wrote:
> Thanks for sharing.
>
> Just to be sure I understand: Vortex Box runs under Unix and you are
> using Unix in the new setup, not Win 7? (Sorry if this is a basic
> question, but I have not used Vortex Box. I thought it was a Linux build
> of some kind incorporating LMS.)
Vortexb
Thanks for sharing.
Just to be sure I understand: Vortex Box runs under Unix and you are
using Unix in the new setup, not Win 7? (Sorry if this is a basic
question, but I have not used Vortex Box. I thought it was a Linux build
of some kind incorporating LMS.)
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I have been an extremely satisfied VortexBox Appliance (VBA) owner since
December 2009. In that time I've built an extensive music library
while modifying both the hardware and software of my machine
incrementally over the years. I've succeeded in converting several
friends into avid VB enthusi
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