Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS 8 with large media collection

2020-04-26 Thread mutli-squeezer
Hi there, just for the record: the scan finished eventually. Afterwards the "Empty" music folder issue resolved itself without further intervention: the entire structure of subfolders simply showed up in the Web-UI. However, in the meantime I had added ~200 releases to the collection. After syn

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS 8 with large media collection

2020-04-25 Thread mutli-squeezer
d6jg wrote: > In which case do you really need such a large library? Do you listen through your collection from the first to the last song? I don't. Currently my favorites list consists of merely ~1200 songs. No one would even want to listen to some of those 10 years of music, because much of

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS 8 with large media collection

2020-04-24 Thread mutli-squeezer
d6jg wrote: > In post 1 you said circa 1 million tracks. I thought at the time I read > it thatÂ’s Spotify territory or getting on for and equals about 10 years > worth of listening. > Is this intended as a subscription service or just for a bunch of > friends? :) While I do wish this would earn

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS 8 with large media collection

2020-04-24 Thread mutli-squeezer
[mherger wrote: > > You know there are tools to do this? :-) > > Yep, used some of those before, but this does not scale as well as my > script solution: So far I never took particular care of the tags, but > managed the media collection with scripts. Essentially the tag > management is now ju

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS 8 with large media collection

2020-04-24 Thread mutli-squeezer
Many thanks for this information. I started writing a Python script to tidy up the tags: Simple job iwht FLAC and OGG. Getting ID3 for MP3 right is somewhat more challenging. I had some issues with NFS in the past where scanning became painfully slow. However, based on some strace observations I

[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] LMS 8 with large media collection

2020-04-22 Thread mutli-squeezer
Hi there, I'm running LMS v8.0.0-0.1.1580732899 with a large (~1 million files), but thoroughly structured media collection of FLAC, MP3 & OGG tracks on a Linux box. * Is LMS able/designed to manage this amount of media files at all? * Is it feasable to have LMS operaing on a read-only NFS moun