I a long-term SB user. I've had just about every pre-build player and I have built a few picoplayers.
I have a relatively large digital music collection. Unfortunately as you may know from a post from me in the distant past, I had a digital disaster. My music library became corrupted and the backups only backed up the corrupt files. The corruption occurred due to an errant USB controller on the music library hard drive array. It turns out 20-30% of all my files became corrupted; that's a lot of files. I tried scanning for them and eliminating them but I had to do it manually and only got through a few letters in the alphabet before I became fatigued. I then looked critically at the corrupted files and found a date range involved in the corruption (a few years worth). I then wholesale eliminated all the files in those date ranges. I also had some older back-ups on several USB hardrives BEFORE I had the array enclosure that had the bad USB port. I then put everything that I felt was uncorrupted onto a new hard drive array but SqueezeServer would not complete the scans. I then scanned all the files again looking for corrupted cover art and eliminated a few hundred corrupted .jpg files. After that, I tried using the latest version of SB, version 8.01, I believe. For the first time in literally years since the disaster occurred, I now have the system up and running again. I have incorporated some Yamaha MusicCast speakers which sound throughout the house and I'm rocking it. I lost thousands of files but I am not adding in files gradually again for the first time in years. Moral of the story: check file integrity periodically, I guess. Good luck. http://zzzone.net http://have-a-nice-day.org http://www.last.fm/user/zzzoneDOTnet http://somethingsomethingsomething.net SBS 7.9 - i7 nuc - Win 10 64bit 5 Booms, 2 Radio, 3 Touch, 1 Duet, 5 piCorePlayers including 3 touchscreen, 1 Avy 2 controllers, various tablets/phones Apps including iPeng, Squeeze Ctrl etc. 'Library' (http://zzzone.net/photo/2009/music1.jpg): 250,000+ FLAC/MP3 files - 16 TB HD ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jimzak's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17592 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114889 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
