Hi,
I’ve noticed an issue when ‘updating folders’ (I have a large NAS of audio content connected via WiFi) and see the update spinning for greater than 12 hours. I then ‘restart’ my volumio and sometimes my content gets removed.
I’m guessing it is because of all the index updates that are happening on the Volumio’s local database.
Q: is there a safe way to reboot while the Volumio is updating the database? … I wish there was a button to tell Volumio to ‘safe reboot’ where it will only reboot at a predetermined safe point.
Anyone else see these issues when updating folders? I do have a lot of content on my NAS, ~2TB of audio files.
Cheers,
Craig
I have 3.5 TB of audio files, which takes approx. 1 hour to complete. But looking at this extensive timings, you’re NAS is full with mp3 files?
I think your biggest problem is an unstable WiFi connection, causing a lot of repeats.
Normally if you do a clean shutdown, via Volumio’s GUI, it should not break the database.
There have been some improvements made to the MPD part, you can try the latest beta release and see if this give you more stable results.
Hi @Wheaten, thanks for response … my music is combo of .mp3, .flac, .ogg i think its a bunch of various music encoding.
q: is your NAS wired/directly connected? (ethernet | usb)
I’m kind of thinking the Volumio filesystem code is synchronous and blocking the thread from doing other things.
I’m a software engineer and have seen UX’es that don’t use async threads are harder to write, and degrade system performance such as what I’m seeing.
In general, I really enjoy Volumio … updating my content seems more difficult than it should be.
Thanks for response,
Craig