Re: Large MP3 collections

OK, it appears I was lying totally in my previous posting, the magic 1000
was from my db client, and after an exhaustive search process, I have
isolated about thirty MP3s that cause the startup process to fail. I don't
know what about them is evil, but if they are included in the playlist or
MP3 directive, segfaults abound. Anyone got suggestions for common ID3
issues? I'm going to break the files open this evening and have a look for
funny business, but it will be a pretty hefty learning curve for me. For
now, I've just moved the files out of the way, and I now have a lovely
6000+ file db to stream from.
Apologies for the false accusations, any help on the (hopefully) real
problem appreciated.
Thanks,

Nick

Nick Giles said:
>
> I've been having problems with mod_mp3 since my MP3 collection got to
> silly sizes, and now when it is included in the httpd.conf, it causes a
> segfault on startup, which is not much use. I've just moved over to
> using MySQL as the dispatcher, and that helps a little - It crashed on
> statup, but it had loaded the first thousand tracks into the db, so I
> just removed the MP3 directive, and let it use the db. However, I would
> like the rest of my music to go into the db, and I was wondering how I
> can do that. Is there a commandline app that will generate the listings
> in a
> MySQL-compatible format? I can do the rest of my collection in
> sub-thousand batches if I can get that... Even if not, is there a
> special way of generating the signature field, in which case I can
> knock up a script that will iterate over everything?
> Also, any ideas on why the suspiciously magic number of 1000 records in
> the db?
> Cheers,
>
> Nick
>
>
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