d6jg wrote: 
> In which case do you really need such a large library? 

Do you listen through your collection from the first to the last song? I
don't. Currently my favorites list consists of merely ~1200 songs.

No one would even want to listen to some of those 10 years of music,
because much of it to me is plain rubbish: Greetings from Hansi
Hinterseer, Vengaboys, or the God botherers from Hillsong, for instance.
But who am I to decide here? Maybe one of my friends has an affection
for Vengaboys, so I keep this.

And it's quite a lifting feeing to come home, after having heard some
nice song out and about, just to find that there's already a choice of
versions of that song in the collection :cool:

Last but not least there are numerous technical learnings from this: I
had very little clue about almost all the technical aspects associated
with digital audio when I started out burning CD-Rs some 24 years ago.
And on Linux many professional tools free: virtualization with KVM,
clustering with Pacemaker, or load balancing with haproxy, so why settle
for less?

d6jg wrote: 
> The scan time for ~ 1 million tracks is going to be a lot of hours no
> matter what you do.
> If it were 100,000 tracks it would still represent about a year of
> continuous listening but crucially you’d get the scan time down to
> perhaps 1 hour.

Sure, I'm aware of that and won't mind having the initial scan running
for roughly two, three days as long as I see some steady progress. I
encountered some ugly issues with NFS before where an initial scan would
suddenly slow down at ~420k tracks and then easily run on like that for
several weeks. Looking at the iSCSI setup now I think it's safe to say
that NFS was the culprit here ...or the poisonous mixture of Kerberos,
NFS4, GSS and SELinux. Kudos to the author of this:
https://rudd-o.com/linux-and-free-software/holy-shit-is-kerberized-nfs-cancer

Best,
Ray


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