August 13, 200916 yr I recently decided to attempt to serve my entire music library (300+ GBs) from my unRAID server to Songbird on my desktop for streaming playback. It works surprisingly well, in terms of Songbird's responsiveness at least, but there is one condition in which the music playback will freeze for a few seconds, then resume. If I have been playing music for quite some time (over an hour) and most of the disks in the unRAID server spin down, then when I attempt to simply browse the folders on the unRAID server, there is the normal few second delay while the disk spins up, but it also causes the music to temporarily stop. As soon as the folder contents load, then the music playback will resume. As long as all the disks are spun up (during the first hour that I power up the unRAID server), this problem never occurs. It seems to have something to do with waiting for disks to spin up. However, since my music disk (all my music is on one disk in the server) never spins down during streaming playback, I don't see why this should be happening. I figure the directory cache script will probably help this situation, but I was wondering if there is a simpler solution, such as just changing the spin down delay on some of the drives?
August 13, 200916 yr Long standing issue: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=3237.0 The only thing I've found to work is telling the drives to never spin down. Caching the directory contents will help... until you need a file from a new drive.
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