PhoenixNZ

Thanks PhAzE for your plugins. Any change you can add your above message to OP, until you do your updates for UnRaid 6 RC? It'd make for easier finding for new user's, like me and couple of friends that will start using them. Cheers, and keep up the good work.

I would be the last person to help in this respect. LOL! I have 2-3 archives. One in Artist/Album/Artist - Album - Trackno - Title.mp3 Another in CDROMNAME/Artist/Album/Trackno - Title.mp3 Another (for DJ'ing) Genre/Artist - Title.mp3 I have over 4-6 TB of music and I may dedicated a single unRAID server to must the music archive since there are so many files. These days, I rip to FLAC and store in the longest file name format. Then use mp3fs to transcode on the fly when needed or copy to another archive when needed. After that I'll use mp3tag to rename it according to the archive needs. One of these days I'll get mp3fs running on unRAID. Right now it's just on my XBMC. Since I have good hearing (Which is why I'm bringing this up) 128K CBR just won't cut it. It becomes especially evident when you are DJ'ing with 2000 watts of power. These days I encode with Lame -alt-preset-extreme or CBR320KB/s since my software and hardware requires mp3's. i use Virtual DJ Pro and a Numark HDMIX. I thought my music collect was impressive, but over 4TB puts my little collection to shame. :'( As for CBR, Flac VBR, I understand where your coming from. Better Quality for the high output. I'm just listening in the car or mp3 player so just set a Minimum level at what comes off normal CD's. And while I've got a 500Watt RMS system, the wife won't let me crank it past 10% What I am interested in is MP3Tag and getting id3 info from the net, to correct Genre field. How does MP3Tag do this? Does it go on the filename or Artist/Title ID3 tag??

Use Tag & Rename, but will look into MP3Tag for the lookup function. As for how I file them I use Artist\Artist - Title.mp3 All the other info is in the id3 tags which can be displayed in Explorer. Plus most MP3 players use the id3 tags to display the songs info, not the filename. No Album images cause I listen to my music not look at it. LOL Also with so many artists releasing many albums, it's highly likely to get more than one copy of the same song, so I don't file by album. This allows me to ensure i don't duplicate the same song. PS, Also drop everything to 128kbps CBR to keep a common format of MP3's. Open to any ideas as my music collection is passing 150Gig.

Er, Yep. As mentioned once web interface was back up, tried Win Explorer to access 'Flash' on Tower. Web ui works great, can start array and transfer to and from Disk1 and Disk2. Just can't access 'Flash' to transfer some plugin files. Anyone??

Hi All So I followed the instructions and stopped the array. from Win XP I accessed the flash and overwrote bzimage and bzroot. Then Rebooted the Tower. Here's where the fun began. once the web interface was back up, I went to Win Explorer and refreshed the network and clicked on 'flash'. Error message popped up saying unable to access flash. What the??? Upgraded so I could use the plugin architecture. Any way I can resolve this?? Without removing the flash and clearing it to start again? Only have two drives in this unit, BUT. The flash is actually a small 20Gig Hard Drive setup for Unraid. And is (or was) working perfectly.

Actually reason CPU was locked by AMD is usually because it failed tests as a dual core or higher cpu speeds, so they downgrade it's performance till the cpu operates stable and reliably. Look at the Phenom x3's. They came about because of a core failure in the manufacturing process. I agree with Rajahal, you want reliability in a NAS/Unraid environment first. And and Rajahal mentions, monitor the system. It may be you're really lucky got a good deal.

JoeL, is there a way to limit this disk buffer cache to a fixed Max size??

I picked up a couple of laptop's with stuffed LCD screens and have them running XBMC Live, hooked back to my Tower. Also three Xbox's with XBMC as main usage, and my main PC has XBMC as well but just for test purposes. Looked at Boxee & Plex, but as a long-time XBMC user, couldn't make the change. Once I can source a couple more compatible laptop's, I'll retire the Xbox's.

I'm a big fan of MC myself. it's gone open source in the last few months, and I think judging by the pages, that the next update should be incoming soon. Never steered me wrong yet. They've moved the code to codeplex site, and just started Weeklies[/] http://mediacompanion.codeplex.com/releases/view/57958 Will check out what they've fixed/added. And there's always the XBMC Thread for Media Companion http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=53640 Great to see this is getting the support needed, not saying anything bad about Billy, I know he's done a fantastic job!

OK, took one look at YANFOE and sorry, last build was Feb 2011, and no TV Support. Back to Media Companion till something better comes along.

I've been a user of Media Companion for ages. It's been very good and easy to use, but recent support has been lacking. Tried EMM but got so confused by the interface I said 'Na, not for me'. I might have to give this YANFOE a looksee. BTW, still using Media Companion as all I do is scrape for XBMC4Xbox and XBMC live, hasn't done me wrong yet...

@Queeg: Damn, you just mentioned my family. . except my daughters 9, and the wife just goes on and on and on and ....bout how nothing works right around here.. but never says a word when it does . Nice to know other's in the same boat.

Just one note to the above procedure. It is not for 'ALL' instances of XBMC. Meaning, 'This will not work for XBMC on XBOX!' And before all the HooHa, yes, people still use XBMC on their Xbox's. I personally have five unit's around my house, plus friends and some neightbours I've talked into this setup. Just worth mentioning.

DOH! Now I see this topic. Should have asked my ? here. Sorry.

Just a note for connecting a SATA II drive to a SATA I controller. Some drives have a jumper on them to make them run at SATA I Speed, while other drives/manufacturers have software control, ie: download a program to set SATA I or II on the drive. I know some drives try to auto-negotiate, but my experience is they don't do this well with certain chipsets. My two cents, hope it helps.