Re: Problems with the player stopping

The exact same thing happens to me.  I notice it happens when my 
server needs to go away for a period of time to do something else.  
Just as in Jordon's case, I have a top-level directory with a large 
number of subdirectories - hundreds of them.  I can often get the 
player to stall if I click the "Top Level" link on the web 
interface.  It takes my system a few seconds (4-8) to read the 
directory and as often as not, the player stops and will not start.

But, sometimes it happens during the course of playing a long 
playlist, too.  I think it's the same circumstance, here's why:

My mp3 directory is a LVM volume (much like a RAID 0) of eight IDE 
disks, concatenated.  After any individual drive has been idle for a 
while (time unknown - several minutes) it will spin down.  Then when 
the playlist advances to the next song, if a disk has to spin back 
up, the player will generally, if not always, stall.

The same thing can happen if I leave the web interface idle for a 
long period (allowing the disks to spin down) and then start browsing 
through the directories again.  In order to read the directories, 
disks have to spin up, causing the dead time that results in the 
player hanging.

In any of these instances, I can get it all going again by just 
clicking on one of the songs listed in the playlist of the web 
interface.  Starts right up.

This smells like a timer management problem in the server. 

Server 1.8, firmware 1.1.

-- Bob Brown


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