Any tips appreciated.
Use one of the Controller apps with 'Party Mode' which stops you
blowing away playlists with a simple 'play' instruction, rather than
add or play next.
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amcluesent
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Take it from a frequent abuser of playlists while intoxicated, Party
Mode on iPeng is a lifesaver. Nothing drags a party down more than
having the music stop because someone hit the wrong button.
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GeeJay
2-SB3s, 1-Duet, 1-Touch...and an iPeng convert.
Ok guys, you know how it is. Its late at night, you're having a great
party. You're wrecked but still want more music. You spin down the menu
of artists but in your drunken state you select play instead of going
into the artist folder and selecting an album. SB then tries to buffer
up the entire
Maybe a plugin that integrates the SB remote with one of these:
http://www.amazon.com/BreathKey-Breathalyzer-Keychain-Professional-Features/dp/B000EB5MJY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8qid=1317912192sr=8-1
More seriously, you may want to try reducing the maximum number of
tracks allowed in a playlist. I
What is your servers performance cuing up 50 albums should work fine
actually ? it should not hang ?
But note that SS/SC/SBS/LMS have performance issues with large playlist
so yes it can happen, it uses far more cpu than it should for such a
thing as a playlist.
Some hints, using the web-UI go
Some experiments.
cued up all my Miles Davis albums 331 tracks no problems.
Van Morrisson 286 different tracks shuffled
Tried the whole country genre 778 tracks no problem shuffled.
And finally the whole rock genre here it hit my playlist limit at
4000 tracks (shuffled) to and went silent for
Thanks for the suggestions guys, I have lowered the playlist to 250 so
I'll see if that makes a difference.
I've also noticed before that the same thing happens on some WAV files.
Most of my stuff is mp3 but there are a few WAVS. Computer is a windows
box running vista. It is in its final days
Thanks for your experiments Mnyb. And I am pretty sure that having
shuffle mode on when doing those playlists increases the processing
load by a huge amount, as compared to non-shuffled.
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aubuti
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Of your server has limited performance:
Don't use file formats that require server side transcoding to work .
Don't force the server to transcode in some misguided audiophool belief
that it sounds better
Don't use to many UI's at the same time.
WEB-UI uses some cpu and so does SqueezePlay
Orb;661688 Wrote:
I much prefer to access my music this way. I've never found tags to work
so well as this.
Please reread your original post, Mnyb's test results using the
tag-based browse modes and a server without much horsepower, and then
think again about how well Browse Music Folder is
aubuti;661687 Wrote:
Thanks for your experiments Mnyb. And I am pretty sure that having
shuffle mode on when doing those playlists increases the processing
load by a huge amount, as compared to non-shuffled.
Yes found that out when we had the unoptimized dB bug pressing shuffle
3 times fast
OP has some wav files, these are not always tagged a limited set of
applications supports that, so they usually aren't .
Per default settings wav is transcoded to flac on the fly to save wifi
bandwidth
Use FLAC and tag the files ?
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Mnyb
Mnyb;661690 Wrote:
Of your server has limited performance:
Don't use file formats that require server side transcoding to work .
Don't force the server to transcode in some misguided audiophool belief
that it sounds better
Don't use to many UI's at the same time.
WEB-UI uses some
aubuti;661691 Wrote:
Please reread your original post, Mnyb's test results using the
tag-based browse modes and a server without much horsepower, and then
think again about how well Browse Music Folder is really working for
you
Mmm, well maybe but I do have 10's of thousands of tracks
Orb;661718 Wrote:
Mmm, well maybe but I do have 10's of thousands of tracks in my library,
much without tags. I've tried a few tagger apps and they either don't
know the tracks so look up fails or they actually mess up the tags
giving songs of an album the wrong titles.
Plus I like the
... Except for the wav files afaik the only gui app that tags wav is
tagrename , a better long term solution would be to convert wav to
flac.
Things like this can be done gradually when one feels up for some tag
adjusting, you can not always do things automagically much hands on
work anyway.
A
aubuti;661733 Wrote:
Getting your tags fixed doesn't mean you have to give up the
organization of folders. They get along just fine simultaneously. In
fact, even if one's music is perfectly tagged, it would be madness
_not_ to keep it in some sensible directory structure such as
Ok guys, I see your point. I'll have a go with mp3tag.
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Orb
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It's under convert menu filenames to tags. And you can play around
with field names, spaces, dashes, etc to get it right and see live what
the result would be.
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garym
System 1: Vortexbox Appliance (1.10) SbS 7.6.2 Transporter, Touch,
Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio)
Orb;661751 Wrote:
Ok guys, I see your point. I'll have a go with mp3tag.
For the FLACs and MP3s do as garym says. The preview feature on
mp3tag is extremely helpful for ensuring you get the results you want.
And also remember the four fundamental rules of mass-tagging:
1) be sure you have a
Trying some more things, actually a resonable sized folder does not
crash my server ~300 tracks works.
then I tried a to large folder to see if it should hit my playlist
limit 4000 tracks it never did, server just went 100% for a while and
no tracks where cued up.
you don't actually have to
did you try the high memory setting it migth work with your new 250
track limit, to give the server room to breath. i use the high mem
setting.
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Mnyb
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