On my music server I have about 15,000 flac files. I also have a few hundred playlists, one in particular (all-nDTS.m3u) that contains the paths of most of my non-DTS tracks (about 14,000) - I can't include my DTS files because SlimServer corrupts them when replay gain is enabled.
I mostly play this playlist, in shuffle-by-track mode, through one or more of my Squeezeboxes and/or Squeezeslave. My music server is a 3GHz P4 Win2k PC with 2GB RAM and heaps of HDD space free. But almost everything I do with SlimServer takes ages! If I change playlists, it takes several minutes before I can play anything from the new list. If I change from sequential to shuffle it also takes several minutes. If I reboot the PC it is several minutes (with much disc-thrashing) before I can play anything from SlimServer. Why is this? My 'yardstick' for how a music player should perform is Spider Player (I'm currently running V2.104, but they've all been very efficient). If I run Spider (takes about 3 seconds to open), I can drag the all-nDTS.m3u playlist into it and the tracks will appear instantly in its playlist, and can be played instantly. If I use its 'Miscellaneous Actions/Other/Randomise' tool to shuffle the entire 14,000 tracks, it happens instantly and I can start playing the shuffled list instantly. Why can't SlimServer work this fast? Or is there an alternative solution (retaining the Squeezebox h/w)? Regards, Daniel (a frustrated Squeezebox owner :-) -- DanielTheGreat ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DanielTheGreat's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13031 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44457 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
