Wondering if anyone else has this problem or has a fix.

I am using 8/9 version of XBMP. Using Samba I am trying to access a directory which has over 4000 mp3 files but each time xbmp freezes. Are there any tricks to getting this to work

Thanx

Does the same thing happen in relax?

No I have not tried relax yet - I'll try it tonight. thanx for the suggestion

I have a similar problem that I have been unable to explain. I have tried the 2.4 release and several cvs builds and the following problem happens to me:

1. Turn on Xbox
2. Load xbmp
3. Select either (A) relax share for videos on my windows machine or ( ccxstream for my mp3's on my FreeBSD box.
4. Xbox freezes up
5. Power cycle xbox
6. repeat steps 2 and 3 and this time it works fine.

It seems to only happen the 1st time I turn my Xbox on for that evening and then after that everything works fine.

I have 20gigs of video files on the video share and about 60 gigs of mp3 on the audio share.

Has anyone else seen anything like this?

QUOTE (hydro311 @ Sep 23 2003, 05:50 AM)

I have a similar problem that I have been unable to explain. I have tried the 2.4 release and several cvs builds and the following problem happens to me: 1. Turn on Xbox 2. Load xbmp 3. Select either (A) relax share for videos on my windows machine or ( ccxstream for my mp3's on my FreeBSD box. 4. Xbox freezes up 5. Power cycle xbox 6. repeat steps 2 and 3 and this time it works fine. It seems to only happen the 1st time I turn my Xbox on for that evening and then after that everything works fine. I have 20gigs of video files on the video share and about 60 gigs of mp3 on the audio share. Has anyone else seen anything like this?

I have exactly the same problem.

Couple of times relax share has worked on first try, but usually Xbox freezes and second try is succesful.

This is the biggest problem i have had with xbmp and it's really annoying.

Maybe someone can help us.

i think i'm having the same problem as you guys
trying to load a large # of files over the network it freezes, sometimes it will eventually go through, but one other problem i have with the new cvs builds is that videos freeze a lot

Yes i had this problem with directories that had large numbers of mp3s. The xbox will eventually process them but it might take a few minutes... i got around this by alphabatising my mp3 so there was no more then 20 or so folders/files in the one directory... EG. One directiory with the A B C D E F G ... folders etc. then inside each of those a directory for the artist and then the album and then the music... it took me a week end to organise them... but it was worth it.

Yeah, does the same thing for me, but once i sort the directories on my PC, works fine. Weird.

Go to settings and turn off "read id3 tags." That will make the load time WAY faster.

Hrm...I am going to try and reorganize my collection. Thanks for all the feedback.

I have 100+ full CD rips on my Xbox HD. It's listed in XBMP as "MP3". When you add the entire share to a playlist, it takes 5-10 minutes before it plays. Relevance: the Xbox is "catching up". Basically, if you make your lists smaller (by organizing to subdirectories) then the processing this this will be quicker.

yeah I had the same problem.... you know how I solved it..... I wait

yeah I have one folder with over 100 mp3s when I select the folder I literally have to sit and wait about 3 whole minutes

I'm using samba sharing and even the smaller directories are slow but how slow is dependent the # of files in the folder...

if you've got 4000 pull up a chair you're gonna be waiting a while

I only have around 2000 mp3s in a directory, but when I use SAMBA it chokes and freezes and takes a while before you can do anything. I set up a Relax share and it only takes 3 seconds to access all my mp3s. I have a 100 MBPS switch, not a hub wich helps as well.

Steve

I am not able to get to any shares... I am sure I have the share names right and I have them in the config file in the specified format <url>smb://myusername:mypassword@home.my.domain/servernameorip/sharename</url>

Could I be doing something wrong? I am trying to connect to a Windows 2000 Server. It is an AD domain. I tried the netbios name of the domain rather than the full dns name of it. I do have my DNS server specified in the config file as well...

Am I missing something?

Also... I FTP'd a video file to the xbox and when I go to play it (yes, I can see THAT) it blacks out for about half a second and goes back to the menu. Why wouldnt it play this?

Thanks in advance

Sollution for long wait for XBMP to read mp3 directory:

1. Use RelaX over SMB, it is faster

2. Turn off read id tags (go to settings from the main xbmp screen)

These two things will GREATLY reduce load time

QUOTE (Master Bates @ Sep 29 2003, 04:12 PM)

Sollution for long wait for XBMP to read mp3 directory: 1.  Use RelaX over SMB, it is faster 2.  Turn off read id tags (go to settings from the main xbmp screen) These two things will GREATLY reduce load time

I use Relax and my main MP3 directory has over 400 folders and 3200 uncategorized MP3 (just sitting there below the folders). It does take about 10 seconds to load over my wired network but it will load fine (another 5-8 secs anytime I go back through the heirarchy from a subfolder to the main directory).

As stated above:

1) Relax works well with this
2) No ID tags - it will take forever I changed the settings just for this purpose
3) Organize the folders in Relax - take your most played sub-folders and put them in the initial directory at the top. Take the main folder wither everything in it and name it something like *All Files. This will appear at the top and you'll only have to go into it if you are playing something that isn't in the directly shared folders. I have around 50 folders of my favorites and then the *All Files at the top.

Hopefully they fix SMB since I have it in place already anyway... Just seems kinda silly to put Relax on there when SMB SHOULD work...

Oh well, life isnt perfect

does anyone have any problems with media player freezing when using samba shares??

I finally got it to see the shares but when I choose a share, something bad happens. All I do know is that I can no longer ping it starting at the moment of choosing a share. From there I have to reboot, so I guess I may be having the same issue as you.

This is SMB as well that I am using

I'm having a similar issue with relax. I am sharing two directories, essentially my C drive and my D Drive. I have about 60GB in my D and 1.5GB in my C. Everything is broken up into pretty well managable subdirectories. When I start it up I can imediatly see my subdirectories but when I try and access a subdir it freezes. I tired simply putting a file in my main directory but it still freezes when I try to play it. I wish I could figure out why.

My problem was fixed by upgrading my evox dash

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Hopefully they fix SMB since I have it in place already anyway... Just seems kinda silly to put Relax on there when SMB SHOULD work...

I really don't think this is a problem with xbmp, but rather a problem with the SMB protocol.

Just go with what works best, and that is relax.