Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Changes to the media scanner handling
mherger wrote: First i thought that any locales are broken. But i checked them and even the mounted Samba-Share has correct Characters. My setup is: Sheevaplug wheezy hosts the LMS. Music is mounted from my Synology (latest DSM) via SMB. Corrected locales, rebooted and made a clean Library also. My regular Music Library is empty and the music is imported by the iTunes Plugin via the SMB mount. iTunes integration is cool when it works. But having three different systems involved (Windows/Mac to create the xml file, one Linux box to host it, another one to read and analyze it) is asking for trouble. Would it work if the library was on the same system as LMS at least? Logging is always a good idea. i have some news. made some tests with one album which contains Special Characters. 1. iTunes Library via Samba - Album not found 2. local Library directly in file System - works! 3. local Library via Samba - works! Scanner gives some weird output at least at (3): /mnt/nas/test/Chilltronica - A Definition N° 1/01 Grotesquely Beautiful.mp3 But in Albums view, the Name is correctly displayed: Chilltronica - A Definition N° 1 So it's at least an iTunes Plugin Problem. if the library would work locally, i did not test. How does the Plugin work? Parse by FileSystem or locate Music Files by the iTunes XML? steffen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=27673 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100444 ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Changes to the media scanner handling
i have some news. made some tests with one album which contains Special Characters. 1. iTunes Library via Samba - Album not found 2. local Library directly in file System - works! 3. local Library via Samba - works! Scanner gives some weird output at least at (3): /mnt/nas/test/Chilltronica - A Definition N° 1/01 Grotesquely Beautiful.mp3 Well here’s the problem: LMS is reading the XML file. You might have written the music files on a Mac over NFS to a Linux box, which then exposed those files over Samba to Windows, which wrote the filenames it was seeing in a file, which then is parsed on the Linux box again. That latter then takes the file paths stored in the XML file, which are invalid in the Linux server’s context, and tries to match them to its own local paths, which could be in yet another encoding. Which means: there are many ways to make this configuration break. So it's at least an iTunes Plugin Problem. if the library would work locally, i did not test. How does the Plugin work? Parse by FileSystem or locate Music Files by the iTunes XML? The plugin is reading the file paths from the XML file, to then read the metadata from the actual music files. ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Changes to the media scanner handling
mherger wrote: No. What version have you been using before? Where is your LMS running? Are you scanning iTunes only? Should be any version of 7.8 in the late summer/fall. (sorry did not keep the last installation file). I am using 7.8 for a long time now. First i thought that any locales are broken. But i checked them and even the mounted Samba-Share has correct Characters. My setup is: Sheevaplug wheezy hosts the LMS. Music is mounted from my Synology (latest DSM) via SMB. Corrected locales, rebooted and made a clean Library also. My regular Music Library is empty and the music is imported by the iTunes Plugin via the SMB mount. In the next days, i will try to import music via the regular Library and maybe i am going on to switch the logging on... steffen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=27673 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100444 ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Changes to the media scanner handling
First i thought that any locales are broken. But i checked them and even the mounted Samba-Share has correct Characters. My setup is: Sheevaplug wheezy hosts the LMS. Music is mounted from my Synology (latest DSM) via SMB. Corrected locales, rebooted and made a clean Library also. My regular Music Library is empty and the music is imported by the iTunes Plugin via the SMB mount. iTunes integration is cool when it works. But having three different systems involved (Windows/Mac to create the xml file, one Linux box to host it, another one to read and analyze it) is asking for trouble. Would it work if the library was on the same system as LMS at least? Logging is always a good idea. ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Changes to the media scanner handling
Just so I have this straight... Using --novideo --noimage on the command line results in something different than simply disabling the UPnP plugin? JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100444 ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Changes to the media scanner handling
Using --novideo --noimage on the command line results in something different than simply disabling the UPnP plugin? From the user’s point of view they’re almost identical. But from a runtime pov they’re not: the command line parameters are interpreted like pre-compiler statements. The code disabled by those flags isn’t even evaluated. Unfortunately disabling the plugin isn’t as thorough as that: while the code isn’t executed neither, it’s still initialized. While this might make a slight difference in memory consumption, the results to the user should be exactly the same. ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Changes to the media scanner handling
Tried out the Build from 11/29. Look for new Music works now fine with my iTunes Library, which is mounted via SMB on my Sheevaplug :cool: But Albums, Tracks with German Umlauts or Special Characters are not found by the scanner any more (where the filename has some special Chars) Did you change there also anything? No. What version have you been using before? Where is your LMS running? Are you scanning iTunes only? -- Michael ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Changes to the media scanner handling
I use Lms on a WD MyBookLive NAS (unsupported install via SSN). Two questions: 1. can i just install this over the existing Lms 7.8 from earlier this Year? Or do i have to delete the Old version? 2. i would like to do a clean install of my NAS Firmware. Where (directories or files) can i find the Important Setting files? I would like to Save and restore my settings of Lms and of all my Kids Players. Logitech Media Server Version: 7.8.0 - 1362754234 on Western Digital MyBook Live NAS 3TB, 3 x Squeezebox Radio, 3 x Squeezebox Duet, iPeng (iOS), Squeeze Play (Android), SqueezeRemote (Windows Phone, Windows 8) justwords's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=52020 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100444 ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Changes to the media scanner handling
I like the new Changes of the LMS :) Tried out the Build from 11/29. Look for new Music works now fine with my iTunes Library, which is mounted via SMB on my Sheevaplug :cool: But Albums, Tracks with German Umlauts or Special Characters are not found by the scanner any more (where the filename has some special Chars) Did you change there also anything? steffen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=27673 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100444 ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Changes to the media scanner handling
7.8.0 - 1385569630, Win7/64, MusicIP, no UPNP, Music Artist Info, Spicefly SugarCube. Ran a new and changed that appeared to work fine and then a clear rescan overnight. All appeared to work, playing music now. Settings, Basic Settings screen looks cleaner. A camel is a racehorse designed by a committee. Wirrunna's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3225 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100444 ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Changes to the media scanner handling
Mnyb wrote: FYI I've been using --noimage --novideo in my settings for a very long time , ever since a lot of bizarre things happend with the media scan in 7.6 :) so all of my beta testing with 7.8 and you plugins have been with these things disabled . +1:D @ Michael: did you notice that the Wipe Scan makes some strange things? (That i didnt understand) eg my 1st Artist (sort by name and folderstukture where the scanner starts) is 1Giant Leap. Only if i drop the .db Files manual (or via script - whats my fav. task) 1 giant Leap gets the id 1 - if i only press wipe scan in the frontend (or starting the scanner.pl with --wipe) it may gets Id 3 or 3000 or something else and all Artists after that get one digit higher. cheers and my big thanks for your work to the last mohican Gruss Jan DJanGo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1516 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100444 ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Changes to the media scanner handling
did you notice that the Wipe Scan makes some strange things? (That i didnt understand) It's not that strange (and shouldn't bother you anyway). The IDs are given by the DB automatically. It's just a number which is incremented whenever a new record is created. As we don't drop the DB, but only delete the records upon rescans, that number keeps getting increased. Eg. if you had 1000 records, then do a wipe rescan, the first item would get the ID 1001. By deleting the file you reset the counter, of course. -- Michael ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Changes to the media scanner handling
mherger wrote: As we don't drop the DB, but only delete the records upon rescans ill noticed that (but you mean drop the table[s] not dropping the db):cool: [even when everyone knew whats the meaning of db - its just a catalog - duck under my chair cause i had some knowledge about big (2 gb) Dbs i always use drop, create table - cause of its much faster and the db is better compressed after than (delete * from xyz). I just thought - if your on the db handling you can add this feature. Gruss Jan DJanGo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1516 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100444 ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Changes to the media scanner handling
DJanGo wrote: ill noticed that (but you mean drop the table[s] not dropping the db):cool: [even when everyone knew whats the meaning of db - its just a catalog - duck under my chair cause i had some knowledge about big (2 gb) Dbs i always use drop, create table - cause of its much faster and the db is better compressed after than (delete * from xyz). I just thought - if your on the db handling you can add this feature. Django: what would you expect the behavior to be like using the drop/create wipe method on systems whose DBs are on slow media...e.g. SD cards or such? Would delete * rescans likely end up being faster on those systems since the file space remains allocated? gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100444 ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Changes to the media scanner handling
FYI I've been using --noimage --novideo in my settings for a very long time , ever since a lot of bizarre things happend with the media scan in 7.6 :) so all of my beta testing with 7.8 and you plugins have been with these things disabled . Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100444 ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Changes to the media scanner handling
FYI I've been using --noimage --novideo in my settings for a very long time , ever since a lot of bizarre things happend with the media scan in 7.6 :) so all of my beta testing with 7.8 and you plugins have been with these things disabled . Yeah, I'm doing the same on my production server. There are ugly crashes on OSX with the media scanner enabled and iTunes disabled... which makes me wonder how many people even bother to check such settings. -- Michael ___ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
