Ok, getting back to the performance issues mentioned above I have a bit more insight. It seems the server bogs down on large playlists, which is what I have been running almost exclusively. You see, if you run a pre-made playlist (eg over 300 songs) the whole thing loads into the 'current playlist' at once and i guess the server or M2T can't handle it. The overall performance of M2T is just trashed. I think this is issue arose since a recent server update.
In contrast, if you run directly from media folders using, for example, Random Mix, the 'current playlist' size remains much smaller and everything works ok. When the song list gets to the end it just adds more songs and everything runs fine because the list never gets too large. The issue with large lists is well documented here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76925&highlight=500 There are plugin solutions discussed that I believe are not currently feasible for M2T (happy to have someone correct me). One fix is to just reduce the max playlist size under 'performance' on the server - this does in fact fix the performance problems. However, if you reduce the max to say 100, then only the 1st 100 songs from a saved list will ever get added to the 'current playlist', even when random is selected. What is needed is a way to run saved playlists of unlimited size while having manageable portions fed into the 'current playlist' as needed. If anyone has a way to do this i'm all ears. Otherwise, this may be a feature add-on for M2T. -- jswhale ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jswhale's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88180 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
