Originally Posted by
rodthebod
Thanks for the invaluable advice Tim, I've been busy checking what happens on the scan via the shh terminal session on my Macbook. It really is quite a busy process and very helpful to see what causes any delays. I never realised I had 'opus' files in my collection which, I think, are seen as video content. I'm going to re-rip these as flac I think to prevent any delays. My m4a files are given a going over with 'ffmpeg' which takes a little time compared to general wav or flac files.
Wav files seem to sound cleaner than flac anyway, but to be fair, I have to do more listening to confirm this.
I still have a stall on the USB HDD and on my NAS file (nfs) server when running the scan, the process just stops but not at the end of the collection. I am going back to basics and only starting with my 'pure' ripped wav cd's as a collection then gradually add albums to get a better picture to what the problem is. Using ssh into the Pi3 is vital to see what's going on.
BTW the only way I could get the NAS working as a NFS share, because CIFS/SMB would'nt ever work was to create then add a file in the etc folder on the NAS server called 'exports' with the line '/media/hdd/Music 192.168.0.0/24(rw,no_root_squash,sync,no_subtree_check)' then it worked. The path shown at the beginning of the line has to match where your collection is located. My server is actually a VUsolo2 satellite media box running enigma 2 linux so that might be why? Still can't get CIFS/SMB to work on my other NAS server which is a Netgear Nighthawk X4 R7500 router, there's no password required but I get 'no password' error on trying to create a share.
Finally, Is there a way to backup your database once it's complete to a Mac or PC via the terminal then restore it, it's just that I find sometimes when the whole process has come to an end I might have a freeze then the database seems to have disappeared on reboot and I have to go over the whole thing again?
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