Re: Calling all music fiends who have MBID tagged music collections!

2014-10-21 20:26 GMT+02:00 Ian McEwen <[email protected]>:

> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 08:17:01PM +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:
> > I have started the VM. I had a little issue with the folder name: my
> music
> > folder is named Music, and the VM already has a shared folder named
> Music.
> > VirtualBox wasn't smart enough to correct this automatically, all it did
> > was refuse to let me click on OK without any explanation. It took me a
> few
> > minutes to think of this and change the share name for my folder. Maybe I
> > could have removed the existing shared folder?
> >
> > The work is slow, really slow. On my i5-3210M, it takes close to 30
> seconds
> > to handle one track, and the software hasn't yet reached my classical
> music
> > tracks! I am going to have to stop it tomorrow morning. How should I do
> it?
> > Just stop the VM? If I restart it; will it automatically skip the tracks
> it
> > already analysed? Or should I fetch the list in submit.log and move those
> > files out of the way?
>
> It keeps track of what it's already done -- the tracking is by filename,
> so it's not necessarily useful if the sqlite DB is moved outside of the
> VM (though you could go in and fix it manually if you felt inspired to),
> but it should be fine as far as things done within the VM itself. The
> submit.log tracking is separate -- that's entirely human-oriented and
> for your own use.
>
> I'll let Rob or someone else more familiar with the particular VM setup
> address the question of stopping it (for running it directly, it's just
> ctrl-c, but since this is running automatically in the background that
> won't do anything).
>

Thanks for the info.

From what I read in the VirtualBox documentation, the vm should pause
automatically when I put my laptop to sleep and wake up properly when I
awake my machine. This means that I shouldn't have any more issues, until I
try to switch to the Windows.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
(davitof)

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