jherbert;375718 Wrote: > we installed ipeng in my wifes iphone to control our music library that > contains some 1.500 artists, 6.000 albums and more than 80,000 songs. > Slimserver 7.3.1 is running on an Infrant ReadyNAS with two SB3 as > clients. > > ipeng slows down the whole setup in such a way that it is not possible > to select and play songs in any reasonable manner. Also im am under the > impression that it never ever loaded the complete library. I am not > really complaining, but getting this to work would be really cool. So > here are my questions: > > 1.) Are there any limits as to the size of the library? > 2.) Once I have loaded the library will ipeng reload every time I add > songs or will it just add songs? > 3.) Is there a plugin for slimserver that speeds up things?
Puh, that's a kind of setup... Actually I don't know of limitations in library size so far, but yours is probably the biggest one I've heard of so far (as of the number of albums, which is the critical point). The REAL issue here is, that the ReadyNAS is not really a fast machine, there are a lot of reports of it becoming pretty slow when delivering data. 2. Unfortunately, iPeng has to reload the whole database everytime you do a rescan. This is no iPeng limitation, SqueezeCenter is simply not able to tell it what has changed. I filed an enhancement request on this half a year ago but so far it's unclear, if and when it will be implemented 3. Generally I would assume that plugins will slow down things instead of speeding them up. With new schema (in SC 7.4) it may be possible to implement an incremental update as a plugin, but I still hope this functionality goes in natively. Sorry that I cannot give you a more positive answer, but you really have a combination of a very large library on a pretty low-spec NAS. Does it help if you let iPeng just run for a while to load the database (you should be able to see whether the whole database was loaded when a) Album art starts to load AND b) (important in 1.0.4) you see that your album list is complete (Z... is present). If everything is loaded, I would quite iPeng (to make it save it's cache) and restart it, actual operation of iPeng should not be affected by the database size or the slowness of the NAS. -- pippin --- see iPeng at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
