The problem here is that LMS is crashing when it starts to do the "deep
scan". The scan is in several pieces, the first just looks in the
directories for filenames and dates and builds a list of files that are
new, this phase seems to work fine. Then it goes and scans the actual
files looking for tags and embedded artwork. Then it looks for separate
artwork files. 


First lets check your directory structure: TinyLMS cannot handle a large
number of files in the same directory, the best approach is a separate
directory per album and then just the files for that album in the
directory. This can be the audio files (*.wav in your case) and possibly
a coverart file (cover.jpg). Is all this true? 

Your problem seems to be that the scanner is crashing when doing the
full scan on your first file. Probably about 75% of crashes with TinyLMS
eventually turn out to be related to artwork. So lets first look at your
artwork, what format is it in? JPEG (jpg) is the least likely to cause a
problem. The pixel dimensions should  not be  large, 500 x 500 pixels is
usually considered a good choice. Check to see that you don't have
artwork embedded in the sound files (I'm not sure you caneven do that in
WAV) . LMS can handle embedded artwork, BUT due to memory limitations on
the Touch a separate image for each track can really cause problems, for
TinyLMS it's best to just use a separate cover.jpg and not use embeded
artwork.

John S.


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