haunyack;241879 Wrote: 
> Hi cparker,
> 
> I've just become your biggest fan!
> Your simple, concise instructions are just the ticket.
> [...]

cparker's instructions - and haunyack's reaction - got my hopes up;
there are details in there that I'd not seen before (e.g. changing the
GUI port), and it is a nice concise description.  Perhaps even worth
losing many hours' working context and trying a reboot...

Unfortunately, I don't seem to be any better off afterwards: now SS has
finally started (it crashed on reboot, but manual start was OK), it does
recognise MIP, but I still don't get the ability to build mixes from
Artists, Albums or Songs. So far mixes from Playlists are the only
things I've spotted; which is no better than I'd managed before.

I must admit I didn't follow the instructions to the absolute letter. 
When I changed the cache location (to under Docs and Settings), the MIP
web page's song count remained steadfastly at zero. When I looked, it's
obvious that though I'm running MIP 1.8.1b, it's definitely updating
the default.m3lib cache that's under Program Files, and there was no
copy under Docs and Settings (for me or anyone/anything else). 
Restoring the cache setting in mmm.ini and restarting the MIP service
did the trick: a nice full cache, with only a few songs unanalysed. 
Generating test mixes from cparker's new server page (much improved
indeed) worked fine too.  But no improvements in SS.

(Actually, first I tried copying the cache file to under Docs and
Settings; this worked too, but subsequently MIP modified the Prog Files
copy, so that's why I think its still the active location.)

Another niggle is that even running MIP headless, for some reason SS's
scanner is kicking in frequently (once per minute, I think); I've tried
setting the MIP reload interval in SS settings to something huge, but it
makes no difference.  (Perhaps setting it to zero (== disable) will
help, but might that be a bit pointless?) Since I use my PC for other
things, this can be a bit of a nuisance as it sometimes freezes
whatever I'm using when this happens.

(If, as someone has suggested, this is because MIP hasn't finished
analysing my collection, then it probably never will - it *has*
analysed the vast majority, but there are a few tracks that it never
seems to finish analysing, and it never seems to give up trying
either.)

I've no idea why I have so much trouble getting MIP + SS to work. It's
frustrating to be able to generate mixes from playlists (which I rarely
want) but not from individual songs (which is what I'd really like). I
can't see anything that I've done wrong.

If I remove the MIP service, will I have to undo the registry setting
before I can run SlimServer again?

-- Brian

Possibly pertinent details:
SS last official 6.5 release
MIP 1.8.1b
Win XP SP2


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