Datatalk / Music.
Yes. Old technology, but it's still working.
I have some issues lately, so I'm now trying to troubleshoot my ages-old installation. The problems that I've seen:
1. Random play doesn't list the right tracks
2. Sometimes the last bit of a song is skipped
Where to find more information
With LMS not that popular anymore (wow, go figure, 20 years old technology that hasn't been for sale for a decennium 😂) it can be even hard to find a forum or a product page with product updates...
Links
1. Random Play
Recently, random play doesn't show the right tracks anymore. Very weird, as I haven't changed anything on the server, nor added any new music. Utterly confusing, this.
Here's my latest attempt...
1. Uninstall 8.3
2. Reboot
3. Install 8.4
4. Settings / Plugins
5. Disable any plugins I don't use (Deezer, MusicIP, Napster, Pandora, Audioscrobbler, etc.)
6. Add Material Skin plugin
7. Settings / Advanced / Performance
- Memory config: Maximum
- Disable library statistics
- Do not pre-cache artwork
- Use LMS to resize artwork
- Maximum Playlist Length: 0 (unlimited)
8. Settings / Advanced / Rescan Music Library
- On
- 01:20 AM
- Clear Library and rescan everything
9. Apply
10. Wait 60 seconds
11. Full rescan
For some unknown reason the full rescan failed on pre-caching, even though pre-caching was switched off... I did another full rescan, and this time it passed. I found out, however, that the Material Skin plugin doesn't show all artwork unless pre-caching is switched on, so I switched pre-caching back on and triggered another Full Rescan.
And now it works again...
2. Sometimes the last bit of a song is skipped
Songs are not played all the way to the end. This has been a problem for a very long time, but I never found a satisfying solution.
3. Schedule
To save power I automatically put the server to sleep at 01:00 every day, except for Sundays.
Daily
Daily schedule (except for Sundays, using the Windows Scheduler)
- Sleep at 01:00
Sunday
Sunday schedule (using the Windows Scheduler)
- Reboot at 01:00
- Squeezebox LMS fully rescans the music library at 01:20. A full rescan takes a little less than 40 minutes.
- In Windows (10) I have set active hours as 09:00 to 02:00. Typically Windows will start updating either at the 01:00 reboot, or at 02:00, when the active hours end.
- Sleep at 02:30
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