Wow... only today I happened to read through parts of this thread... The swapping sounds interesting. I think we dismissed the idea because we didn't want the listening experience to be negatively impacted, eg. playback being delayed because a codec had been swapped out etc. It'll be interesting to hear more about your experience. You should convert this posting to a wiki article (http://wiki.slimdevices.com)... or even better: an applet :-).
As for the scrobbling: your description sounds reasonable. I'm surprised there has been no bug-report yet. Could you please open a ticket on bugs.slimdevices.com? Thanks! Michael Am 07.12.2011, 14:31 Uhr, schrieb treepleks <treepleks.54dnzb1323264...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com>: > > Preliminaries: all this has been done from a Linux box. This is also > feasible from Windows or MacOSX, you just have to adapt to your OS (ssh > client, paths). > > > I had my squezebox touch running TinySB 7.7 on a LaCie 500GB 2.5" USB > disk. I was pretty satisfied with it but > > 1) the >15000 (FLAC) tracks need a lot of server memory and I > occasionally got "oom" (out of memory) oops in the log files. > > 2) the lastfm scrobbler did not work when I was connected to the tinySB > server . > > I apparently solved the first issue (which also seems to improve the > overall interface speed a bit) by adding (virtual) memory to the > Squeezebox touch. The idea is just to create a swapfile on the USB disk > (or SD card by the way, you just need to choose the correct path to the > device instead of /dev/sda1). > > Proceed as follows: > > - enable SSH on the squeezebox > - connect to the squeezebox: ssh root@<squeeezbox-ip> > - download a fresh new "busybox" executable compiled for ARM on your > USB disc (available in /media/sda1) and set it as executable. > > cd /media/sda1 > mkdir bin > cd bin > wget > http://busybox.net/downloads/binaries/latest/busybox-armv6l > mv busybox-armv6l busybox > chmod a+x busybox > > This busybox binary has all bells and whistles, so it contains mkswap > and swapon. Just make this easy to access: > > ln -s busybox mkswap > ln -s busybox swapon > > Now make a 128 MB swap file (larger is useless apparently, I never > exceeded 40MB swap usage) > > dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1M count=128 > > Then format the swapfile as swap > > ./mkswap swapfile > > Activate swap > > ./swapon swapfile > > You can check with "free" that swap is activated. To make this > resilient to reboot, you should create a "squeezeos-boot.sh" file that > contains these commands at the root of your disk (/media/sda1) > > ---- CUT HERE ---- > #!/bin/sh > /media/sda1/bin/mkswap /media/sda1/bin/swapfile > /media/sda1/bin/swapon /media/sda1/bin/swapfile > ---- CUT HERE ---- > > make this script executable > > chmod a+x /media/sda1/squeezeos-boot.sh > > This was not enough in my case. The init script that executse > squeezeos-boot.sh on every mounted device is executed too early and the > USB disk is not yet mounted at this time. I just inserted a "sleep 10" > line in /etc/init.d/rcS just before the block in charge of the > squeezeos-boot.sh execution. Boot is a little slower, but I do not boot > often :-) > > This is it, your tinySB server will never die again from oom errors (it > never did again in my case, YOMMV). > > Second: audioscrobbling > > The tinySB has the Audioscrobbler plugin, but the settings > (/etc/squeezecenter/prefs/plugin/audioscrobbler.prefs) are apparently > never updated to contain a username AND an associated MD5 hashed+salt > password for lastfm. Even if I installed the LastFM application > (pretending to live in UK to make this possible on my mysqueezebox > profile), audioscrobbling would work only when connected to an > external server or to mysqueezebox.com. Not to the tinySB. > > I found a simple blunt solution. I installed the full SB server on a PC > (running linux, but this should not be really different under other > OSes, just different paths to files) and went to advanced settings to > configure the audioscrobbler plugin with my LastFM username and > password. > > I then explored the server files on the PC to find the > "audioscrobbler.prefs" file. On Linux it is in > /var/lib/squeezecenter/prefs/plugin if I remember well. It did contain > my LastFM password (salted and hashed). > > I just copied the little rascal file on the squeezebox (use scp on > Linux or MacOSX), at the correct location > (/etc/squeezecenter/prefs/plugin/), replacing the original file (keep a > copy if you are not too confident), rebooted the squeezebox. If you then > go to advanced parameters on the SB Touch, you will see that your LastFM > account appears now as the first line in the LastFM audioscrobbler > settings, but is not activated. Just select it and...voila > > audioscrobbling works. > > -- Michael _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
