The LMS experience is not optimised for using folders. It physically
goes and read the folders as you browse to check if there are new
folders. It's always best to use the internal menus as these are read
from database relatively quickly.
You could run two LMS servers each set to look at the
hcanning wrote:
The LMS is running on an Athlon 64 X2 box with 2GB RAM. Not exactly
cutting edge, but plentiful for Squeezeboxing, I'm sure you'll agree.
Just image how LMS 'Music folder' works on my 128MB RAM NAS O_O..
10-15sec extends sometimes to 30+ (which make Music folder pretty
Jaca wrote:
Just image how LMS 'Music folder' works on my 128MB RAM NAS O_O..
10-15sec extends sometimes to 30+ (which make Music folder pretty much
unusable - unless you got patience of monk)
It's really pain as I have always prefered browsing folders and newer
been fan of library
Search is also pretty fast it uses tags
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garym wrote:
Don't use it myself but I see plenty of reports of happy users of
multilibrary plugin. Regarding folders vs tags. LMS is designed to work
with tags. Folders is not really meant to be the main approach to
finding music to play. And just because one uses tags doesn't mean you
Jaca wrote:
I also keep same file structure .../Artist/Album/tracks but I
wasn't aware I can use mp3tag to get tags from it.
Thanks for that! never really digged mp3tag... will definitely spend
more time to try know it better..
Probably will get round multi library plugin as well to
garym wrote:
yep, mp3tag can work very well. Essentially, you load up your files,
then use the menu item convert then filename to tag. Then from here
you get a popup with a mask that you can map directory names,
subdirectory names, file names, spaces, characters, etc. to the
appropriate
Great band ! in the screenshot.
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dasmueller wrote:
Great band ! in the screenshot.
you and I definitely share musical taste (and an interest in LIVE music,
really live and recorded shows!).
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garym wrote:
for example, see picture. This file is in a x:\music upper level
directory. the . at the beginning of the map just takes care of the
upper level directories so that it now only looking at the artist/album
directories. Note, spaces, characters (like a -) etc. all matter in
Hi all,
I've been having this problem for a while now and thought I'd ask and
see if I could get any insight.
We have one LMS with two Squeezeboxes in our house, and one controller
for each.
Our music is separated into two 'Collections' - My music, and my
father's music.
The folder structure
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