More Feedback
Hello, I have continued to hammer on FreeAMP. I downloaded and compiled from CVS this morning so that my feedback would be more relevant. First, some background. I have encoded most of my CD's for quick and easy access while working. I started out encoding MP3's with LAME, but switched to Ogg Vorbis after their beta1. I now have 509 MP3 files and 344 Vorbis files. This results in a total of 3.76 gigs of music. I fired up my new copy of FreeAMP, and specified my music directory as the directory for the Music Browser to scan. All went well for about three minutes. It zipped through the MP3 albums and moved slower for Vorbis albums. I put that down to the lower amount of optimisation done by the Vorbis team. However, as FreeAMP scanned, the system grew slower and slower. Eventually mouse movements wouldn't appear on screen for 30 seconds or more. FreeAMP ceased to update the name of the directory being scanned, even though I could hear the hard drive still spinning. After about 5-7 minutes X came crashing down. Hazarding a guess here - reading Linux Care's Kernel Traffic it appears that the kernel will kill a process once available memory is exhausted. I believe FreeAMP exhausted all memory (128M RAM + 128M Swap) and the kernel killed FreeAMP/X. Anyway, unless otherwise warned with a Cease and Desist notice I will consider myself the Ogg Vorbis, memory hog who tests to destruction. Looking forward to 2.1.0, later, joseph -- the "LaterDude" @ ([EMAIL PROTECTED] || ICQ #52640402) http://www.ice-works.com/personal/LaterDude/index.html All opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily those of my employer unless otherwise noted. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.freeamp.org/mailman/listinfo/freeamp-dev
RE: More Feedback
On 19-Sep-2000 Joseph A. Martin wrote: I fired up my new copy of FreeAMP, and specified my music directory as the directory for the Music Browser to scan. All went well for about three minutes. It zipped through the MP3 albums and moved slower for Vorbis albums. I put that down to the lower amount of optimisation done by the Vorbis team. However, as FreeAMP scanned, the system grew slower and slower. Eventually mouse movements wouldn't appear on screen for 30 seconds or more. FreeAMP ceased to update the name of the directory being scanned, even though I could hear the hard drive still spinning. After about 5-7 minutes X came crashing down. Could you see if current CVS fixes this? I fixed a largish memory leak when calculating the length of vorbis files earlier today.. Should have squashed this. Isaac ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.freeamp.org/mailman/listinfo/freeamp-dev
Re: More Feedback
On 19 Sep, Joseph A. Martin wrote: On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Isaac Richards wrote: On 19-Sep-2000 Joseph A. Martin wrote: I fired up my new copy of FreeAMP, and specified my music directory as the directory for the Music Browser to scan. All went well for about three minutes. It zipped through the MP3 albums and moved slower for Vorbis albums. I put that down to the lower amount of optimisation done by the Vorbis team. However, as FreeAMP scanned, the system grew slower and slower. Eventually mouse movements wouldn't appear on screen for 30 seconds or more. FreeAMP ceased to update the name of the directory being scanned, even though I could hear the hard drive still spinning. After about 5-7 minutes X came crashing down. Could you see if current CVS fixes this? I fixed a largish memory leak when calculating the length of vorbis files earlier today.. Should have squashed this. Wow! Your fix does work. I updated, recompiled, and re-scanned. FreeAMP completed indexing in approx 2 min. All of my tracks are now listed in the Music Browser. My only remaining beef is that the Vorbis title, author, and album tags are not being read. Can I expect any changes on that front? Yeah, I'll try and do that. When I first wrote support for Vorbis, the title, artist and album stuff wasn't congealed yet... Can you please go to bugzilla and enter an enhancement request and assign it to [EMAIL PROTECTED]? That will ensure me getting it done. --ruaok Freezerburn! All else is only icing. -- Soul Coughing Robert Kaye -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://moon.eorbit.net/~robert ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.freeamp.org/mailman/listinfo/freeamp-dev
