JohnSwenson wrote: > 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.
Thanks John Gonna remove three of the 4 jpg files that windows has in each folder, keeping the largest one. Will test if after Ive done all the folders. If still no joy then will remove each album out of the artist folder so there will be no artist folders and test again. Will update with progress. Last thing if still no working is to just have the alabum artwork as a jpeg there in each folder and not as a hidden files as they currently are. Thanks again everyone ------------------------------------------------------------------------ m13kyf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56106 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95052 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
