Posts made by blavis

Switched the style to Fusion, looks great now.

See? If you just don't respond they'll solve their own problems.

Okay, well, I think I've made some config tweaks that have helped the SMB performance. The full collection rescan still takes forever, but it always did and that's expected. The update changed, however, is now as fast as it was on linux. That was the important one.

One other thing I've noticed, moving from linux to MacOS, is the increased time it takes to scan my NAS-based library via SMB, particularly with Update changed collection folders. That function would normally complete in under a minute if I'd just added a new CD or two. On MacOS that now takes well over ten minutes, even if I've added a just single song.

My library size is 22K songs, hundreds of subdirectories. So it's not exactly small. But the performance between Strawberry on MacOS vs Strawberry on linux is what's surprising.

Is there anything I can do to optimize things?

One additional detail: when doing Update changed collection folders on linux, I remember the tracks would count slowly at first and then zip through the remaining songs in seconds. So there was this slow stage followed by a fast stage. On MacOS, there's no fast stage. It goes at the slow rate through all 22K songs. Not sure if this a clue as to what's going on.

For some playlists I can only see the first few characters of the playlist name even though we've got all the room in the world to display them.

Thanks,

Brad

Just looking at one of my FLAC files and its metadata, tagged by SongKong (pulling from MusicBrainz), I see the following pertaining to dates:

<ORIGINAL_YEAR>1976</ORIGINAL_YEAR>
<ALBUM_YEAR>1997</ALBUM_YEAR>
<ORIGINALRELEASEDATE>1997</ORIGINALRELEASEDATE>
<Recorded_Date>1997</Recorded_Date>

I say "and/or" because I barely know what I'm talking about. What I do know is I can't use Original Year in Strawberry because that value for FLAC files seems to simply mirror whatever Year is set to.

For Apple AAC files (ID3v2), on the other hand, Strawberry's Original Year works great. But not so much for FLAC's vorbis metadata.

I realize the standards for using ORIGINALDATE, ORIGINAL_YEAR, and/or ORIGYEAR are a little loosey-goosey, so I'm not sure what all the ramifications might be to implement this.

@jonas said in Error when updating file tag:

@donkatsu
I'm not sure this will work with gvfs. Try mounting the SMB share in fstab.

I can confirm this is the solution.

Here's a good video for any linux users needing help setting up fstab shares.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ni5fq4ozoM