snarlydwarf;586384 Wrote: > You may also find using plugins for this will help immensely. SBS gets > grumpy with very large playlists, and the method of "grab a dozen or so > tracks, keep adding to the end and dropping off the start as we play" > works a lot better. > > Using Erland's plugins, you can make "dynamic playlists" that are > comprised of parts of your collection, like "All tracks tagged > 'Classical' or 'Everything except tracks tagged Explicit or Christmas', > etc. > > Then you get the pleasure of hearing tracks you didn't think of playing > (the appeal behind random) without the long load times of an actual list > of all your tracks. > > (And, of course, as you add music, it will automatically add it to the > playlists that it qualifies for... not to mention you get playlists > like "Not recently played" and such when you're wanting something new > but don't know what.)
I've tried Erland's plugin and unfortunately it does not work for my configuration. I have several playlists I rely on heavily that are created by setting the star ratings in iTunes (via my iPhone, on my Mac, etc). I then copy the iTunesLibrary.XML file into my Windows Home Server and have SBServer use it for the source of my playlists. I manually have to update the xml file periodically since I have found no good or reliable way to keep star ratings or any other aspect of the SBS library synchronized with iTunes that resides on another computer. In any event, I haven't had any real trouble with my large playlists getting into trouble until I observed this 500 song issue. Thanks for the information. -- jmpage2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jmpage2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82978 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
