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LMS 7.8.0 performance limitations and bottlenecks

June 9, 2014, 6:36 am
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Hi,

I installed LMS 7.8.0 on my Pogoplug v3 running Debian Squeeze, yesterday. I got everything working fine (at least as much I could test yesterday). I am wondering, though, if and how I could improve the performance of that little server. Especially accessing the web interface could be faster (it takes almost 10s to open the page; subsequent actions are much faster and lag only a little, but they could be faster, too). The hardware specs of the Pogoplug v3 are: 700MHz ARMv6 dual core processor and 128MB RAM. I can't change these obviously, but I'm wondering if there are other tweaks I can apply to improve the overall responsiveness.

The first thin I have in mind is the boot drive. At the moment, Debian and LMS are installed on a 4GB USB flash drive. The flash drive gives 15MB/s read speed and 5MB/s write speed, so there is room for improvement here. I'm thinking about buying a faster 16GB flash drive to max out the transfer rates limited by USB2.0 (~30MB/s). But before buying a new flash drive, I'd like to know if that helps at all. Does anybody have some experience with that? I have a 256MB swap file on the flash drive, so I guess swapping would benefit from a faster drive, too. Are there any recommendations on how large the swap file should be on such a setup?

Are there other tweaks I could apply in ordner to imrpove the responsiveness of LMS? Not that it would be bad: Browsing artitsts/albums and playing music works and seems to be similar to the internal server - it would be nice to have it even faster, but it's ok as it is, too. Browsing the music folder is noticably slower, but I don't need that. Scanning is much faster than on the touch (by factor 3-4), so that's nice. The web interface is quite slow, as I said, so improvement in this area would be nice, if possible without investing in a new server.

Thanks,

Timo
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Sorting by artist/year/album EXCEPT compilations/various

June 11, 2014, 5:59 am
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Not sure if this has been raised before but I would like to be able to sort my albums within each Artist folder by year (or date) of issue but sort the Artists/Various folder only by album name... feature request or is there a quick perl hack?
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LMS 7.7.3 problem firmware upgrade squeezebox

June 13, 2014, 6:30 am
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Hi,
I do have a LMS 7.7.3 running on a synology server.
Works perfectly with a downgraded sqeezebox UE.

Now I got a squeezebox (3) that connects well to the server and starts to upgrade the firmware.
After 2/3 progress I alwasy get the message "nb alloc failed in slimproto"
The squeezebox is on firmware 88 and runs well with mysqueezebox.com.

Any ideas?

Thanks for any suggestions
Ralf
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LMS >7.8.1 on ARM w Perl > 5.14 ??

June 14, 2014, 12:30 am
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> ... I somehow need to figure out what you mean with "...build the binary
> parts of LMS for your platform..." ;)
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You should get an error message giving you a hint about it when you try to start slimserver.pl. In short:

- get a copy of https://github.com/Logitech/slimserv...ublic/7.9/CPAN
- run the buildme.sh script

You might need to install some dependencies (nasm?) using your OS' tools.
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'TuneIn' and LMS 7.8.0 setup

June 14, 2014, 2:49 pm
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I did a fresh install of VortexBox 2.3 which includes LMS 7.8.0 and everything works except I cannot figure out how to get 'My Presets' in LMS 7.8.0 to do its thing with TuneIn.

I am registered on the TuneIn web page which is likely a necessary step.

But I do not know what to do next to get 'My Presets' active. Perhaps there is a place to enter my TuneIn credentials in LMS to get them connected? At which point I have to select 'Presets' somewhere?
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Various Artists

June 16, 2014, 12:41 am
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Hi there,

I'm using Squezebox radios for a while and have all songs installed on a Qnap server.
In the music lybrarie I have a "singles" folder with separate songs of artists.
In the MP3 TAG, artist and title are correct.
However in the Squeezebox radio it shows "diverse artiesten" (dutch for various artists)
In this menu some of the singles show, but when selected, it shows the correct artist name.
Does anybody have suggestions on how to repair this?
Please let me know.

Rinie
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LMS on Ubuntu 14.04 - MP3 issue?

June 16, 2014, 9:26 am
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Hello,

I've sucessfully installed LMS 7.8.1 on Ubuntu 14.04 64bits; everything works fine.
One weird thing though, my music folder contains flac, m4a, mp3 etc.
LMS will just ignore any subfolder that contains mp3 files (fully tagged)
What am I missing?
Thanks for any help.
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adjust jpg to mp3

June 18, 2014, 9:52 am
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I have some albums with different artist/titles and wanted to see the write cover for each number.
I have connect the different jpg files to the songs with MP3tag, that okay
Something does not work correctly
For example, playing I’m a train - Albert Hammond, jpg from Al Steward appears and at the playlist below jpg from Billy Swan.
Media Server does not know exactly what he wants.
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Still using Win XP?

June 19, 2014, 7:52 am
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If you're still using a WinXP box, you're most probably aware that MS has discontinued support.
However, there are a lot of point-of-sale machines in the world running XP. They have not lost support.
So... you can make your XP box appear to be a POS by adding an entry in the registry.
Easiest way is to copy the following lines into a text editor. Save as SetPOSReady.reg (or whatever name floats your boat).
Then just run it. You'll need to be in the Administrators group (or use runas).
MS does not support this. I've done it on an old laptop, and the "this operating system is obsolete" warnings disappear, updates start happening, and Security Essentials goes back to working. I've read that this will extend support to 2019.

Code:

removed
google for why it might or might not be a good idea
Performance-wise, if you're running a Squeeze server on XP, you'd be better off switching to Linux, but, hey, this is a five minute fix. Procrastinators of the world, unite!
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Playlist

June 21, 2014, 12:16 am
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I see a lot of playlists, don't know why, can I can delete them one by one, is there a way to delete them all at once.
Can I avoid the auto making of them
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LMS 7.9.0 ARM - CoverArt refresh hangs up??

June 21, 2014, 9:25 am
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Hi folks.

I've got LMS 790 running on ARM (Cubitruck-Debian Wheezy).

The ARM board is connected via wired LAN.

Somehow, after downloading several covert art images in the beginning (after cache reset) , the image update process on my control app stops.


The behaviour is the same on two different control apps.

Thumbnail size is 100.

Could anybody hint me into a certain direction ??

THX
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LMS which version to use? 7.7.x 7.8.x 7.9.x

June 24, 2014, 2:23 am
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Hi

I've been using the 7.7.X branch for some time now on my Windows Server (WHS 2011) which is a HP Proliant N40L Microserver.

Looking at the wiki page here: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Nightly_Builds

I see there are also 7.8.x and 7.9.x branches, why so many different versions?

Which one should I be using, what would you recommend?

Thanks
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Scanning under 7.9

June 24, 2014, 8:09 am
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> Rescanning the library does not seem to be picking up updates/ additions
> to the library.
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> Also, I see browse music folder is missing - intentional?

It's all working fine for me.

If you want to know a little more, you might need to give a little more
information: what exact build, what OS, server.log, scanner.log etc.

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Michael
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Troubles Upgrading to 7.9

June 24, 2014, 7:42 pm
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Don't know it it is to better categorize this as an LMS issue or a 3rd party hardware issue, so I posted on both sides...

Had a pretty sad morning.

Given the good rep of 7.9, I tried upgrading to it using SSOTS. (My TS219PII started with the official 7.7.2 Qpkg, then upgraded to 7.7.3 and then 7.8 lately via SSOTS) All were working fine under 7.8. Clicked the 7.9 file to upgrade. It says files were extracted but didn't know what was extracted. Upgrade failed. OK. So, I tried going back to 7.8. It says installed, but it couldn't start. Log says something about CPAN (sorry. I didn't copy it off, as I was operating out of a little tablet at that time) and suggests that I install something with required packages. Being desperate, I decided to uninstall, reinstall via the QNAP's Qpkg, and then re-upgrade to 7.8. (As a side note, directly upgrading from 7.7.2 to 7.8 didn't work with that same CPAN error. I had to go from 7.7.2 to 7.7.3 to 7.8). Now it seems to be live. A few questions:

1) What could have gone wrong with the 7.9 installation? (I used this file: logitechmediaserver-7.9.0-1403598500-arm-linux.tgz and did rename it to squeezeboxserver-7.9.0-arm-linux.tgz)
2) Why did my downgrade back to 7.8 fail despite a successful install?
3) By doing what I did, I seem to have lost all settings. Is there a way to roll back yet still keep settings?
4) On the first couple of rescans, they seem to have ended prematurely and didn't pick up everything. I started a clear library and rescan before I left home, and would know when I return. However, if it is indeed a problem (as I don't see why the first couple of rescans didn't work), how should I solve that?

Thanks.
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Control Deezer from CLI

June 26, 2014, 2:23 pm
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Hi,

I've newly registered myself for the Deezer Premium+ Account and would like to use the Logitech Media Server for streaming. Since I am also planning to build a custom app that communicates with the LMS over the Command Line Interface, I need to figure out howto control the Deezer App/Plugin from the CLI.

I couldn't find anything through the search and would be really glad if you could help me, even if it's just to say that it is simply not possible :)

Thanks in advance.
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LMS 7.8.1 RandomMix of Songs stops adding new tracks after player turned off and on

June 29, 2014, 5:52 am
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I have updated to LMS 7.8.1 (glad to see on going support) without any problem and everything works fine except when using RandomMix>RandomSongs. I have the option checked to add new items when the old one finishes and this works whilst the player remains turned on. If I turn the player off and then some time later turn it back on and press play no new songs are added to the list as the current tracks finish. This was not the case in 7.8.0. It is as if the server times out waiting for the player. If the player is turned off and on again quickly then songs are still added. This happens on Squeezebox Booms and Radios. Has anyone else noticed this? Is there fix?
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Is it possible to display samplerate and/or bitdepth ?

July 1, 2014, 7:53 pm
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Hi , as my collection of HD music grows, I started 'renaming' albums that are HD (ie adding 'HD96/24' or 'HD176/24' etc) to album title.
I use LMS v7.9.0 and am curious is there an easier and smarter way to display Samplerate and BitDepth somehow on iPeng and WebBrowser 'playing track' windows ?
If that could help i also use TrackStat plugin from Erland and/or custom browse (which did allow me to browse albums via samplerate) but i have playlists or play random tracks to be able to see those ?

tx in advance for advice !

gaha
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Cannot find playlist files

July 2, 2014, 8:28 am
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I'm running Logitech Media Server version 7.8.0 on a Cubox-i, under an ArchLinux-arm build. It works well. Have lot's of playlists that work great.

I'm creating a new build from scratch (fixing an issue not associated with LMS), and wanted to copy my playlist files so that I can put them in the new build. But I can't find them! In the LMS basic setting tab they are listed as being in "/media". But if I open a shell (as root), and list the files in /media, it's empty. Go figure.

Also, have done a search for any files ending with the m3u extension, and found none. But I've got lots of playlists that work.

Anyone have any insight as to where these playlists really are? Or why I can't find them?

Thanks in advance. :)
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LMS not aparently available

July 7, 2014, 1:53 pm
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Hi all,

I have LMS installed on a FitPC2, which runs all the time. At the moment, no devices can connect to LMS on the Fit. These include:

Transporter (Ethernet)
Radio (WiFi)
Contoller (WiFi)
Web remote control (accessed headless through my main computer)

I can see LMS, and get to the initial screen, but going to advanced and web remote control it just spins without connecting. The other devices all report that they can't access the music library.

However, when I access the Fit headless, I can see everything fine; it also shows up on my network from the main PC, and I can access and transfer files. So the problem is not the Fit.

LMS was working properly up to yesterday.

Ideas?

R.
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Playlists not shown or accessible under 7.9

July 7, 2014, 6:28 pm
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I have LMS 7.9 on my QNAP TS469L NAS. Recently, due to some permissions and folder issues, I had to relocate my data from the original folder (call it x) to another folder (call it y). After relocating, I re-pointed LMS to look for music and playlists from x to y. After a rescan, all the music and favorites reappeared, but no playlists. I understand that the contents of the original playlists must be still referring to x, so I searched and replaced references in a couple of playlists (they are all located in y now) just to try. No sucess. I've also tried saving new playlists. The new ones said they have been saved, and I see them in the files (as for the rest of the playlists), but they don't show up under Playlists.

I will likely re-do the whole set-up on my QNAP for other reasons, but just in case that doesn't solve it, is there anything I should be looking at before hand?

Thanks.
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