> be warned though rdimport will freeze the best of machines, I have been > waiting an hour to get 40 songs in the dropbox, and i still cant use the > desktop while its frozen
I also have never had a problem, but I do import to a local hard drive, and my final format is uncompressed audio. In addition to rdcatch (which I'm assuming calls rdimport at some level), I have several scripts running throughout the day downloading and importing audio files on our live "rdairplay" machine and rdairplay never misses a beat. I've also more than once bulk imported 200+ songs on this same machine running rdairplay without a problem. Oh and this machine is an old (but very reliable) 4.3Ghz single core P4. I think have rdimport "niced" down (put "nice" in front of the command) rdimport in all the scripts I've written however. I have seen this problem (computer freezing during an intense I/O operation) caused by weak/failing sectors on a hard drive. It usually plays out that only after about 100,000+ retries (and several seconds pass by) the sector on the hard drive is successfully read or wrote to. In the meanwhile the whole computer freezes. Unfortunately I've seen this problem a lot over the past 5 years with modern hard drives.
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