Reply To: Firefly for Mac and a big iTunes Library (300GB)

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eldino
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Hey Mr. Ron, as I describe with more details on a post on my blog (http://eldino.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/en-firefly-media-server-how-does-it-act-with-a-big-music-collection/),
i kinda solved my problem.

It seems that, when Firefly, both Mac and Windows version, scans some mp3s that it doesnt like, It hangs your computer eating every kb of real and swap memory, and cpu too, and the only solution is to reboot the machine. I isolated some folders of mp3s it doesn’t like and I will do more testings about that soon, so If you are interested, i will post here more infos about what kind of mp3s they are (bitrate, encoder etc).

Actually I run the 98% of my music collection inside Firefly and everything works so great!! I stream music to myself because loading all those 45000+ tracks inside iTunes “natively” takes ca 400mb of ram (!!), so I serve songs via Firefly and I listen to them via iTunes sharing thing =)
cool hmhm? =)