Infrant Wrote: > Mikerob, > > The re-scan performance is definitely slower, but if your music > collection doesn't change a lot then the biggest hit will be the first > time you set things up. For 10K tracks, we estimate it will take 2-3 > hours (this is assuming pretty detailed ID3 tags). We are looking into > ways to modify the re-scan procedure so that it only scans what has been > changed; thereby significantly reducing the re-scan time when you > add/delete music from your collection moving forward. Right now, I > don't know when this will be implemented. > > We should support Apple Lossless today, please let me know if you have > found otherwise? > > Alien BBC is on the "To Do List", but I don't have an ETA at this > time. > > Hadn't heard of Music IP Mixer, but I will have someone look into it.
Thanks for that... I don't have an Infrant NAS at the moment but was thinking about one purely for storage so was interested about Slimserver support. On music scanning, I don't tend to find the "Look for new and changed music" option on Slimserver very reliable so I usually do a "Clear and re-scan" every time I add new music which is just about every week, and it takes 20-30 minutes for about 10k tracks using my Mac Mini. This is one of the more annoying things I find about Slimserver... I'd be interested if it was possible to do the re-scanning on a separate machine to generate the database file for those who may find 2-3 hours too painful... I've no experience with the Infrant products so didn't know if Apple Lossless was supported or not. Music IP Mixer (previously called Music Magic Mixer) seems to be pretty popular among the Slim community and I'd recommend you take a look at it to understand what it does. I use it all the time as with a large-ish collection, there is loads of music that I have forgotten about or haven't really listened to and Music IP is a great way of automatically generating playlists to reveal music that I may have passed over. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Music IP analysis function is far too heavy duty for a NAS but similar to the re-scan question, maybe there is a way of using a Music IP database file that has been generated using another PC. -- mikerob ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mikerob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24523 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
