I have an under powered machine and here are my delay scenarios...
PII 366 Celeron, 384M RAM, 320gig UDMA-100 driver with PCI UDMA-100
Controller
745 Albums, 12353 Songs
Linux Mandrake 9.2 - BIND9, Postgresql, Slimserver
I have my folders organized in the root music folder like this
Christmas (xmas music only here, don't want it mixed in with my other stuff)
Books (Books on tape, Pimsleur Language Rips, etc)
Elise (Kids music for my daughter)
Music (The master repository of all other music)
Lovewave (my band's music)
I typically play on my squeezebox, the entire 'music' folder shuffled by
song. So..
1. I navigate to 'Browse Music Folder -> Music' and hit 'Play' on my remote.
2. At this point, the sqeezebox freezes for about 45 seconds (CPU on
server is at 98%)
3. The display will show the first song playing but there will be no
music at this point. If I press 'Now Playing' I can see the current song
in the queue labeled as 'Playing' but not... and the song list count is
growing (song 1 of X, where X is increasing as the playlist is being built).
4. At this point, even tho the song is not playing and the Squeezebox
shows it as Playing, I hit Play and the song will then actually play.
5. After about 1-2 minutes of the song playing (playlist still
building), the music generally stops for about 1-5 minutes until the
playlist finishes building and then the song resumes where it halted.
At this point Im quite used to the routine so Im sure to start the
process about 5 minutes before I actually need music. I have been hoping
to upgrade my server but just have not had the time. However, the server
did work just fine with my Audiotron.
I just installed the 6.2 nightly last night to see if anything improved
but I have not been home yet to try. I will report back... Im excited to
hear that 6.2 may improve my delay issues.
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