Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-07 Thread tastewar
Indeed, that's how I got it installed! tastewar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32399 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115224

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-07 Thread jeroen2
d6jg wrote: > Yes it doesn’t use Samba at all. Not sure if it’s built into pCP or not. Thanks, it's in the PcP extension repository so I'll check it out this weekend. Code: Title: rsync.tcz Description:Fast incremental file transfer Version:3.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-06 Thread Howard Passman
If the created or modified date on the file has changed will it update it? When I update by music backup I don't sync files just because the created date changes. Thanks, Howard d6jg wrote: > No. It programmatically compares the two sets and then copies everything > that has changed or is new

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-06 Thread d6jg
jeroen2 wrote: > Sorry for the Noob question, but can rsync run without Samba (using SSH, > I guess)? And could I run rsync on the Pi (on PcP)? Yes it doesn’t use Samba at all. Not sure if it’s built into pCP or not. Jim https://jukeradio.double6.net VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-06 Thread jeroen2
d6jg wrote: > On the contrary rsync is the way to go if you are using Linux and is > highly configurable and can easily be run on schedule. Sorry for the Noob question, but can rsync run without Samba (using SSH, I guess)? And could I run rsync on the Pi (on PcP)? ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-06 Thread d6jg
Howard Passman wrote: > Respectfully, wouldn't it still need user intervention to decide what > types of files you wanted to compare in order to do it as quickly as > possible? > > Howard No. It programmatically compares the two sets and then copies everything that has changed or is new and opt

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-06 Thread Howard Passman
Respectfully, wouldn't it still need user intervention to decide what types of files you wanted to compare in order to do it as quickly as possible? Howard d6jg wrote: > On the contrary rsync is the way to go if you are using Linux and is > highly configurable and can easily be run on schedule.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-06 Thread d6jg
Howard Passman wrote: > Not to beat a dead horse, but one of the reasons I don't think you'll > ever get this to be automatic and that I like FreeFileSync is, sometimes > you only want to edit or add certain types of files. Maybe you've just > added a few album covers or something like that. With

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-06 Thread jeroen2
Howard Passman wrote: > Not to beat a dead horse, but one of the reasons I don't think you'll > ever get this to be automatic and that I like FreeFileSync is, sometimes > you only want to edit or add certain types of files. For me using Samba and connecting the PcP drive as a network disk to m

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-06 Thread Howard Passman
Not to beat a dead horse, but one of the reasons I don't think you'll ever get this to be automatic and that I like FreeFileSync is, sometimes you only want to edit or add certain types of files. Maybe you've just added a few album covers or something like that. With FreeFileSync you can choose t

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-06 Thread jeroen2
mrw wrote: > Carbon Copy Cloner on a mac can sync between a mac and networked drive. > [...]The USB disk being shared by the LMS server using samba. I've tried that but keep having problems with it. Keeps freezing LMS and then takes forever to get it reboot and recognise the external USB disk..

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-06 Thread Howard Passman
I use FreeFileSync to sync up 3 servers and a 4th hard drive. Works easily enough and takes no time except the wait if you have a large database. The fastest way for me is to remove the drive or USB thumb drive and sync it on a Windows machine using USB 3.X The 500GB thumb drive in my car isn't

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-05 Thread tastewar
Thanks, everyone. I have something mostly working now. Started off trying to use the SAMBA server, and was doing that with rsync, but then decided I could just figure out how to do it with ssh. So now that's what I have going. I ran into issues with filenames, and ultimately ended up reformatting

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-04 Thread mibigo
I have iMac and picoreplayer and an usb drive that is connected to the router; so that i ca see theusb drive as a server on the network. Then i use an apple script to that run Rsync to sync my iTunes library from my iMac to the USB drive. It Works quite smoothly. --

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-04 Thread mrw
Carbon Copy Cloner on a mac can sync between a mac and networked drive. In my case, from my iTunes folder on my mac direct to the USB disk attached to my LMS server. The USB disk being shared by the LMS server using samba. ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-04 Thread d6jg
df77 wrote: > Unfortunately that is not possible with sync free - with resilio sync > (free) the sync process is always between different instances of the > sync daemon, and therefore even using smb as a target would require a > second machine running resilio sync. > > The big advantage of res

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-04 Thread df77
tastewar wrote: > df77- is Resilio Sync (free version) capable of targeting the optional > Samba share that can be installed in LMS on pCP? Or does it require that > Resilio software is running on the pCP itself? Unfortunately that is not possible with sync free - with resilio sync (free) the s

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-04 Thread Redrum
slartibartfast wrote: > Freefilesync also works well. > https://freefilesync.org > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk this is what I use to sync two systems, one at home the other at a cabin. I do it not only for music, but favorites and prefs. The object is to have two identical systems a

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-04 Thread tastewar
Thanks, d6jg; I would like to avoid, if possible, the complexity of a adding a NAS (another device to manage, find a place for, etc) if I can, but I appreciate the simplicity (in some sense) of having it be a "hub" that some devices would write to, and others just read from. df77- is Resilio Syn

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-04 Thread slartibartfast
Freefilesync also works well. https://freefilesync.org Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk slartibartfast's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35609 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-04 Thread df77
I strongly recommend resilio sync for such tasks. It's a very powerful and simple tool for such use cases, but afaik it's no packages for pcp are available. In principle that should be doable: There are at least builds for arm and armhf available (https://www.resilio.com/individuals/) I use resi

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-04 Thread d6jg
tastewar wrote: > I have a piCorePlayer 8.0.0 running LMS server using a local USB hard > disk to store my music library. A long time ago, I plugged it into a > computer and copied my iTunes music library to it. I have, on occasion, > manually updated it, but what I would really like is to be ab

[SlimDevices: Unix] Any good plugins, or extensions, or "recipes" for synchronizing a music library?

2021-10-03 Thread tastewar
I have a piCorePlayer 8.0.0 running LMS server using a local USB hard disk to store my music library. A long time ago, I plugged it into a computer and copied my iTunes music library to it. I have, on occasion, manually updated it, but what I would really like is to be able to setup automated syn