Lost Viking;165775 Wrote: > 1) > It took more than 5 (!) hours to scan my music collection. This is > awful! I added a few files and performed the "look for new and changed > music" option. And it seems to take another 5 our scan to make it > available for Squeezebox/Transporter. So in future, if I rip a new CD, > place it on my file server, I can listen to it the next day, at the > earliest, after having performed an overnight 5 hour scan?? :-((
If you want faster scan times, you'll probably need a faster server. My library of 14,000 tracks takes less than 15 minutes to scan on a not-particularly-fast P4 server. If you're going to invest $2000 in a computer audio device, another couple hundred may not be unreasonable for the computer that feeds it. > 2) > Beside this, I don´t even understand WHY and WHAT has to be > "scanned".... I am using my mp3 collection (RAID1 server) whithout any > scanning and other creepy stuff. I am simply using a network share, > double click the files & play them using Winamp. Now my music is > scanned and re-sorted using tag information. I thought I can use > Transporter the same way just as I did using winamp on my PC. I am > afraid, this will not be possible :-( (correct me if I am wrong...) No, it doesn't work the same as Winamp or other PC-based music software in which you're browsing in Windows Explorer and clicking on files. > In other words: The by far most preferred and expected behaviour of > Transporter would have been to take me quickly through the folders (one > folder = one album) of my file system. After dealing with SlimServer, I > am afraid, I am forced to accomodate this new and (from my point of > view clumsy) way to handle music. (again, please correct me, if I am > wrong...) There is a Browse Music Folder browse mode, but it can be a little slower than the other browse modes. Yes, SlimServer will be new. I used Winamp for years before using SlimServer and I must say that I love the browse modes that SlimServer presents. Browse by Genre (How do you do that in Explorer?) or browse by Artist, Album Year, etc. If you're like most people, then you organize your library by artist. Browsing by Artist will be very similar to browsing artist and album folders in Explorer, with some added benefits. First, album art can be displayed. Second, you can easily include among the artist's albums, those where the artist is only a guest or has just one or two tracks. > 3) > Why is this software browser-based? It is laggy, takes more time to > load than the crappiest website at the end of the world... Several reasons. Cross-platform compatibility is one - the server can be run on a number of different operating systems. Centralized management is a more important reason, IMO. You can have several Squeezeboxes running in your home and you can control them from any computer or PDA on your home network. I would suggest that if it's too slow, you may need a faster server. The thing about the Squeezebox and Transporter is that the SlimServer computer is a very large part of the "brain" that runs the device. If you skimp on the computer, you can end up with a device that functions poorly. One thing I found out about using a network share for the music file storage is that it can have a very large impact on SlimServer's scanning performance. I'm not quite sure why that is (other than being an enormous amount of data to pull across the network to be analyzed) but moving the music to a local hard disk on the SlimServer itself improved scan times by a factor of three. > Ok, for all of you having read until here: THANKS FOR LISTENING! At the > moment I am frustrated and have the strong feeling having made a 2k USD > bad buy :-(( That's a lot of cash to plunk down before you know how a device is going to operate. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31095 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
