[SlimDevices: Beta] huge delay on new music

2006-08-10 Thread gandt
Has anybody else nothing a significant delay on getting a result on clicking on New Music in the latest Beta - I have a big collection - over 3,000 albums but its taking a minute to get to the new music screen from the home page. I can't see any other delays in the system which otherwise seems OK

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Glitch on Pause

2006-08-10 Thread Craig
I've raised bug 3904 on this one http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3904 Craig -- Craig Craig's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=96 View this thread:

[SlimDevices: Beta] Music Magic - nothing mixable?

2006-08-10 Thread tfish77
I posted a bug about this issue (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3903), but got a response that it's a support issue (probably meaning that I'm doing something wrong). Can anyone help me figure out what I might be doing wrong? I got the latest MusicMagic (1.7) and made sure the API

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Music Magic - nothing mixable?

2006-08-10 Thread woo
i'm not sure why they said this is a support issue. many people (myself included)have been unable to get music magic to work with 6.5 and no amount of trouble shooting seems to fix it. -- woo woo's Profile:

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Music Magic - nothing mixable?

2006-08-10 Thread tfish77
woo, would you mind posting to my bug report to let them know more people are experiencing this? Thank you. -- tfish77 tfish77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1809 View this thread:

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Is Random Mix broken in 6.5?

2006-08-10 Thread brucegrr
I really need some help here.This is the only thing that keeps me from using 6.5.1 every day. Using the random mix: Under Choose a random mix of music from your library: the random artist is missing Under Genres to include in your mix: the genre is shown as a number rather than its

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Is Random Mix broken in 6.5?

2006-08-10 Thread atlslim
Are you using the latest nightly download? Working fine here -- atlslim atlslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3054 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25572

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Is Random Mix broken in 6.5?

2006-08-10 Thread brucegrr
Yes I am. I have downloaded the nightly build 4 times over the last four weeks.Same problem each time. This is really the only issue for me with the beta. -- brucegrr brucegrr's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Music Magic - nothing mixable?

2006-08-10 Thread kdf
On 10-Aug-06, at 5:12 AM, tfish77 wrote: Is there something I'm missing here that makes this not a bug? Am I forgetting something? Using d_musicmagic doesn't show anything unless I go into the Music IP Mixer app and manually send a mix to SlimServer. Then it shows me the tracks that got

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Is Random Mix broken in 6.5?

2006-08-10 Thread Michael Herger
Under Choose a random mix of music from your library: the random artist is missing You might want to rescan your collection (if you didn't recently). And clean the Cache folder found under your slimserver installation folder. What skin are you using? This is looking rather strange to me. If

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Music Magic - nothing mixable?

2006-08-10 Thread kdf
On 10-Aug-06, at 6:54 AM, tfish77 wrote: woo, would you mind posting to my bug report to let them know more people are experiencing this? and post command line terminal output of a scan with d_musicmagic and d_scan enabled. or run it to a logfile and attach that. c:\program

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Music Magic - nothing mixable?

2006-08-10 Thread tfish77
KDF - how do I tell SlimServer to use its own MySQL instance? -- tfish77 tfish77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1809 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26275

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: huge delay on new music

2006-08-10 Thread gandt
But does everybody else find clicking on new music responds quickly - mine is taking over 1 minute to come up graham -- gandt gandt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=586 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Is Random Mix broken in 6.5?

2006-08-10 Thread kdf
That screenshot is definitely old data. You've got some old templates there, or some odd mixup along the way has kept an old copy of Random around. Check the contents of Plugins/RandomPlay/HTML. It should now only have an EN folder. Get rid of any of the others. Also look for the

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Music Magic - nothing mixable?

2006-08-10 Thread kdf
On 10-Aug-06, at 8:47 AM, tfish77 wrote: KDF - how do I tell SlimServer to use its own MySQL instance? It should on it's own unless you altered the prefs at some point for the db. You mentioned using Mysql 5.0, so I assumed that you may have redirected slimserver to use an existing set of

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: huge delay on new music

2006-08-10 Thread dean blackketter
Mine's quite quick here on a slow server with 6.3.1. How much music is new? On Aug 10, 2006, at 8:47 AM, gandt wrote: But does everybody else find clicking on new music responds quickly - mine is taking over 1 minute to come up graham -- gandt

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Is Random Mix broken in 6.5?

2006-08-10 Thread brucegrr
Well I am brilliant...I just don't know why :) I decided to start over. Uninstall, delete everything. Reinstalledit works. I love it when I fix something and have no idea why :) Thanks for the help. As always, I find the forums of great help and I appreciate those who are willing

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: huge delay on new music

2006-08-10 Thread ron thigpen
gandt wrote: But does everybody else find clicking on new music responds quickly - mine is taking over 1 minute to come up My settings are to get the most recent 40 albums from the approx 4000 albums in my library. Takes about 20 seconds. Athlon XP 2400, 1GB, lightly loaded SlimServer

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: huge delay on new music

2006-08-10 Thread gandt
I had it set to the default and it took a minute(ish) I changed it to 250 and it still took a minute(ish) - it completed its scan yesterday so I know thats finished - all other functions seem to be taking the usual amount of time. IS there something special about new music that could cause the

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: huge delay on new music

2006-08-10 Thread Dan Sully
* gandt shaped the electrons to say... I had it set to the default and it took a minute(ish) I changed it to 250 and it still took a minute(ish) - it completed its scan yesterday so I know thats finished - all other functions seem to be taking the usual amount of time. IS there something

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: huge delay on new music

2006-08-10 Thread Michael Herger
My settings are to get the most recent 40 albums from the approx 4000 albums in my library. Takes about 20 seconds. 6800 songs, C3/1GHz, 25 albums to display: 2-3 seconds (player and web interface). There must something be wrong with your configuration. -- Michael

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: huge delay on new music

2006-08-10 Thread gandt
both take the same amount of time - any meaningful diagnostic i can run? -- gandt gandt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=586 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26269

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: huge delay on new music

2006-08-10 Thread Dan Sully
* gandt shaped the electrons to say... both take the same amount of time - any meaningful diagnostic i can run? The output of --d_sql would be useful. -D -- There is no emergency. Nothing to see here. Move along. ___ beta mailing list

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: huge delay on new music

2006-08-10 Thread Dan Sully
* gandt shaped the electrons to say... it crashed the system..related issue i guess. Is there any way the database could have got corrupted between installs - I did an upgrade after an installation of couple of nights back was failing to find anything in my music folder... You should

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Music Magic - nothing mixable?

2006-08-10 Thread tfish77
I am currently running with --d_musicmagic --d_import --d_scan --d_sql --d_mysql and running a wipe and rescan. Where should I post the logfile? Here or in the bug report? Thanks. -- tfish77 tfish77's Profile:

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: huge delay on new music

2006-08-10 Thread gandt
it crashed the system..related issue i guess. Is there any way the database could have got corrupted between installs - I did an upgrade after an installation of couple of nights back was failing to find anything in my music folder... -- gandt

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: huge delay on new music

2006-08-10 Thread gandt
where is the system event log I cant seem to run with the diagnostic on at all... -- gandt gandt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=586 View this thread:

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: huge delay on new music

2006-08-10 Thread Dan Sully
* gandt shaped the electrons to say... where is the system event log I cant seem to run with the diagnostic on at all... Start Menu - Administrative Tools - Event Viewer -D -- faisal my life is collapsing to what will soon be NEGATIVE INTEGER degrees of separation.

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Hebrew scroll direction on 6.5

2006-08-10 Thread taloyd
Hello, I was going to post asking how to get Hebrew to work, but it seems it already does... How?! I just bought a SB3, and installed it this week. I'm using the latest firmware (as of Monday), but my Israeli music is still coming through as ???s. Could this be due to Exact Audio Copy ripping

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Music Magic - nothing mixable?

2006-08-10 Thread kdf
Quoting tfish77 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am currently running with --d_musicmagic --d_import --d_scan --d_sql --d_mysql and running a wipe and rescan. Where should I post the logfile? Here or in the bug report? please attach it to the bug report. there is a link for creating attachements on

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: huge delay on new music

2006-08-10 Thread gandt
I did have a (non functioning i thought) moodle installation (vle for schools that uses mysql and apache) - could some of that still be running and getting in the way? I does seem like i have something slowing up the processes another database might be the problem -- gandt

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: huge delay on new music

2006-08-10 Thread Dan Sully
* gandt shaped the electrons to say... I did have a (non functioning i thought) moodle installation (vle for schools that uses mysql and apache) - could some of that still be running and getting in the way? I does seem like i have something slowing up the processes another database might be the

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: huge delay on new music

2006-08-10 Thread gandt
so Im thinking moodle - maybe when the slim database was first created the other one being there affected it? -- gandt gandt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=586 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: huge delay on new music

2006-08-10 Thread ron thigpen
Michael Herger wrote: 6800 songs, C3/1GHz, 25 albums to display: 2-3 seconds (player and web interface). There must something be wrong with your configuration. Previous time was from the webUI with 'Show Artist with Albums' enabled. Disabling this option dropped the result from 20 sec to 15

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Re: huge delay on new music

2006-08-10 Thread Dan Sully
* ron thigpen shaped the electrons to say... Disabling this option dropped the result from 20 sec to 15 sec. Keep in mind this is a library w/ approx 4000 albums and 55000 tracks. Ron - are you running on svn? I checked in some changes to include additional indexes in the schema. You'll

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Re: huge delay on new music

2006-08-10 Thread ron thigpen
Dan Sully wrote: Ron - are you running on svn? Thanks Dan. I'm not on svn, but will try it out from the nightlies (though not likely to happen before early next week) and report back. Given that we're on mySQL now, I may even be able to pitch in with some performance tuning work. I am a

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Re: Re: huge delay on new music

2006-08-10 Thread Dan Sully
* ron thigpen shaped the electrons to say... I should be able to get the raw SQL queries out of the d_sql logs, no? Yes. Does running some of these queries interactively and messing around with the SQL logic, indexing, etc. sound like an approach reasonably likely to bear fruit? It does.

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Music Magic - nothing mixable?

2006-08-10 Thread Wirrunna
Michael Herger posted this technique to get tracks mixable - http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=124707postcount=21 -- Wirrunna Wirrunna's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3225 View this

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Hebrew scroll direction on 6.5

2006-08-10 Thread ganjastone
I see gibrish instead of hebrew letters in Browse Artists/Geners/Albums. it shows the Artists/Geners/Albums properly, but the index is 1 2 A B C ... Z and then strange characters (not ??) using latest 6.5b on XP sp 2 -- ganjastone

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Hebrew scroll direction on 6.5

2006-08-10 Thread Dan Sully
* ganjastone shaped the electrons to say... I see gibrish instead of hebrew letters in Browse Artists/Geners/Albums. it shows the Artists/Geners/Albums properly, but the index is 1 2 A B C ... Z and then strange characters (not ??) using latest 6.5b on XP sp 2 Are your tags properly encoded?

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Hebrew scroll direction on 6.5

2006-08-10 Thread ganjastone
Hi Dan, Whats the shape the electron thing? :D Anyways, these are the same tags that works properly for me in 6.3. It appears the new view is causing this. Its all Unicode. I can post screenshot or html source if u like -- ganjastone

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Hebrew scroll direction on 6.5

2006-08-10 Thread Dan Sully
* ganjastone shaped the electrons to say... Anyways, these are the same tags that works properly for me in 6.3. It appears the new view is causing this. Its all Unicode. I can post screenshot or html source if u like I'd really like to see one of the files that has broken tags. Please email

[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: Music Magic - nothing mixable?

2006-08-10 Thread woo
Wirrunna Wrote: Michael Herger posted this technique to get tracks mixable - http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=124707postcount=21 this didn't work for me with 6.5. in fact when i tried this only 3000 of my 24K tracks appeared in the database. there were no errors in my debug log,