I'm having all kinds of weird problems. Any insight or suggestions would be most appreciated.
There are a couple issues here, but they are all related ... I just bought an Infrant ReadyNAS NV+. I have a library of about 15,000 files - mostly mp3 and m4a - that takes up about 120GB of space. The library is "owned" by an instance of iTunes running on a G4 Powerbook. I use iTunes on the Mac to manage the addition of new music to the file directory, to maintain the meta data and manage iPods. Initially, I had thought I would run the embedded Slimserver on the ReadyNAS NV+ ... which I tried, but the menus were very sluggish and the lag to start up each track was painful. Rescans - which I do frequently to reflect changes made to the file directory by the Mac - were also painfully slow. I decided to use a spare XP machine (older thinkpad with 1GB of memory and a 1.8 GHZ Pentium M) as the slimserver ... connected to the same GB switch as the NAS. Problem 1 ... I updated the slimserver on the XP laptop to version 6.5.2 ... it had an older slimserver version installed that had previously scanned the network drives successfully, but was not being used. Slimserver had been set to scan the NAS directly via a mapped network drive. Following the update to 6.5.2, the first rescan after the update failed and threw an error that started "Oops, that directory is invalid." Since then, every instance of slimserver put on that machine refuses to accept any directory paths as valid that start with a drive letter. Problem 2 ... so ... I decided to try and install iTunes on the laptop ... which went just fine. I scanned my files over the network (which - BTW - iTunes seemed to do MUCH faster than slimserver) and created a new iTunes library to which I successfully pointed the slimserver. It was all working great. In fact, following the successful integration of the new iTunes library into slimserver, slimserver then even accepted my directory path for my playlists. I should have quit ... but I didn't. Because I wanted the slim library to reflect any changes to the file directory made daily, I needed a way to keep this new iTunes instance in sync with the directory ... I downloaded an app called iTunes Library Updater.exe (http://itlu.ownz.ch/wordpress/) ... I tested it out on a different instance of itunes on a different machine using the same file directory ... successfully. So I tried it out on the new instance of iTunes on the XP Laptop. It ran successfully, but at the end, it failed to save the iTunes library due to what looked like a memory error. I checked my system settings, and I had the memory set to prioritize system cache over programs. I had switched this because I thought it would help the slimserver performance on that box. Perhaps a mistake ... but I switched back to programs and iTunes was happy again and successfully saved its library. BUT ... now Slimserver doesn't pick up anything when it scans the iTunes library. So now I am at a total loss ... the slimserver refuses to recognize any directories as valid and when it scans the iTunes library it comes back with zero songs found ... Any suggestions or assistance would be most appreciated! -- JeremyPayne ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JeremyPayne's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12332 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36749 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
