Re: [slim] Squeezebox Controller 40K Song Limit?

2008-01-18 Thread moley6knipe
What he said. I'm a FIEND for trawling through second hand shops, car boot sales and charity shops for all manner of wierd things now I've got a couple of SB3's. Looking for a CD to listen to in a rack of 900 or so discs was getting a little tired - but now I've got a search button! Yipee!

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Controller 40K Song Limit?

2008-01-17 Thread casperse
Brilliant! that is so cool! Thanks for the quick reply! -- casperse casperse's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11616 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42380

[slim] Squeezebox Controller 40K Song Limit?

2008-01-17 Thread casperse
Hi All I just read that the new controller saves the Music library in the controllers memory! I also read that the Sonos have a song limit of 40.000 songs. I always loved the idea about Slim devices not having a limit! (-; And yes I actually know people with over 4000 CD´s in their collections

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Controller 40K Song Limit?

2008-01-17 Thread kdf
Out of curiosity, where were you reading this info? I think something somewhere may need a correction :) -kdf -- kdf kdf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Controller 40K Song Limit?

2008-01-17 Thread casperse
I know alot of people using Sonos are having problems with large music collections and are trying to Squeeze (-; more songs into their Sono by shorten filenames and Dir structure... They have raised the limit from 20.000 to know being close to 50.000 but because its all in the local memory it

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Controller 40K Song Limit?

2008-01-17 Thread seanadams
There are no limits on the server end either. -- seanadams seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42380

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Controller 40K Song Limit?

2008-01-17 Thread snarlydwarf
casperse;259842 Wrote: I just read that the new controller saves the Music library in the controllers memory! It doesn't. It caches some information, but it makes no attempt to save it all. (The server has that, and has it indexed.. it would be slow to move from Albums to Artists if the

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Controller 40K Song Limit?

2008-01-17 Thread Espen
That Sonos limit is why I decided not to consider it. I do not expect to break the barrier soon, but I do not like to know there is one either. I have read that people with a lot of classical music (and some tend to have really much) often see lower limits as the file tags are often longer that

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Controller 40K Song Limit?

2008-01-17 Thread snarlydwarf
seanadams;259851 Wrote: There are no limits on the server end either. Sure there is... int(10). So somewhere before 9,999,999,999 tracks, albums or artists, the schema will need to be adjusted. (Though my guess is performance would suffer somewhere before that point... but when machines

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Controller 40K Song Limit?

2008-01-17 Thread norderney
seanadams;259851 Wrote: There are no limits on the server end either. And that is one of the reasons I went with Slim Devices in the first place and why I have just bought a Transporter. I currently have 29876 songs 5066 artists and I am still buying lots of CDs. Infact I buy more CDs now,