RE: Newbie Questions

I also modified the php time out settings.  Yes, non-IIS systems also have
a php.ini file.  I imported over 18,000 tracks with no problem at all.  It
took over 1/2 hour, but it is a one-time thing.  [Okay, one-time everytime
I do an upgrade. :( ]

>
> James,
>
> I have a collection of about 6000 mp3s and was able to get them to
> import just fine with the import script in Netjuke.  However, I did have
> to change a couple of server settings to allow PHP to run a script for
> the length of time.  Since I'm running IIS, I had to change the CGI
> timeout for IIS from 300 seconds to some bigger number.  5 minutes isn't
> enough time to import collections as big as mine(ours).  Also, in the
> php.ini (which I don't believe exists for non-IIS?) I edited the php
> script timeout to be much longer than 300 seconds.
>
> This is probably what your problem is (or at least that one).
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Spibey [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 8:25 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Netjuke-users] Newbie Questions
>
>
>> > 1) Is it possible to create a user which only have read-only access
> i.e.
>> > they can search and stream but can't download or edit?
>>No, I'm afraid it's not. Normal users shouldn't be able to edit
>>metadata currently and downloading can only be disabled for all users.
>> That's why we thought of introducing a better permission system for the
>> next version.
>
> That sounds great :) It would be great to be able to grant and revoke
> privillages per user or group.
>
>> > 3) Why is the import done in PHP? Surely it would be much more
> efficient
>>to
>> > write a native app which could be run on a cron job or whatever just
> to
>> > synchronise the DB to the media files?
>>I don't think it is that inefficient - not as fast as native code could
>> be, I admit. But on the other hand PHP provides easy access to database
>> (adodb) and the getid3 library for tag reading. The cronjob ability
>> should definitely be addressed in 1.1 but I'd opt for an
>>additional php-shellscript which can be called to update the database.
>
> The reason I suggested this was that the import script didn't work too
> well
> with my MP3 collection. I have about 7000 tracks and though the import
> script reported that it had recursed added all my media, I found that in
>
> fact only about 1000 were added. I had to manually add the remaining
> tracks
> in blocks of no more than 300 tracks at a time. This is OK but it's a
> bit of
> a pain when dealing with large collections. I also noticed that the text
> on
> the import page didn't display until the import was done but I think
> this
> may be because my PHP installation is set to buffer output. By the way,
> I'm
> using a Windows Server (I know, I know) to run this so that may explain
> why
> the performance isn't up to much. Is there anything which can be done to
>
> increase perfomance?
>
> And one last little question (I promise) - I noticed that my list of
> artists
> looks correct but for every letter in the alphabet there is an artist of
> the
> same name. If I click on one of these artists it shows that netjuke has
> incorrectly identified the artist - for example, if I click on 'b' in
> the
> artist list there are a list of tracks by an artist called 'b' but the
> artist is actually 'The Bluetones' or 'Blondie'. The ID3 tags are
> correct.
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> James
>
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