But just now I noticed they added (or might have been there in previous?) a 500 song limit on adding songs to playlist. When searching on the forum, this was done for performance issues.  People to often found themself adding lot of songs to the playlist, causing the server to lock up for 10 minutes..

In the world of today, where your phone is faster then a pc from 7 years ago, is this possible? The server _has_ near nothing todo, beside scanning the music and serving it. (I don’t use transcoding and all the other stuff).

Sorry, but a machine with a 1.5Ghz Via Esther and 1 gig of ram should handle a 10000 playlist easily. It should handle 100.000 songs easily.  Why can’t a commercial company that has been at it for many many years (first slimdevices, now logitech) get it right.  The web interface is still terrible slow, near useless, the iphone application often stalls too on searches (happens server side I guess). Only the interface on the squeezebox itself is doable, if the playlist is small.

I raised the limit, and indeed try to add my full collection. I am still waiting for the cpu usage to drop and the center to become available again.  At logitech: Hire a decent C programmer, dump the perl core and get some performance going. 100000 songs in a playlist should never ever be a problem, esp. if you use a full fledged database as backend.

I don’t get this. I really really don’t.

p.s.  Tested mpd, it runs fine with all my songs added to the playlist.

Until now there have been 3 pre-releases:

?Beta 1, 2, 3

But I need help!  Help on this release (testing mostly!) and in general.

For this release I need people testing GMPC:

• I have hit several times a rare crash, that I was unable to track back or reproduce.
• Marking bugs “to be tested” as fixed.  Bugtracker.
• Website needs updating. (screenshot, guides etc)
• Plugins need to be verified if they still work.

Most of the work is coordinated via #gmpc @ irc.freenode.net, I also try to announce things on the #gmpc on identi.ca.

You can get the latest (testing) gmpc here:

• ubuntu: GMPC-Trunk PPA
• Archlinux: AUR Package
• Gentoo: The MPD-Overlay.  (right link?)
• Source: Here
• Windows: installer, portable apps
• Mac OsX: unavailable atm. sorry.

Changes in the upcoming release (not complete):

New features

• Humanity icon theme
• A pixbuf cache. Avoid loading image at the same size twice, and reloading images.
• Async loading/scaling off images from the hard-disk.
• Async mpd query handler. Loads data over a separate connection.
• Copy message to clipboard button.
• Use load command to make mpd load remote playlists (mpd 0.16 only)
• Update now playing look.
• Support for showing and setting ‘raw image data’. This makes a plugin that reads embedded image possible.
• Make HTML text correctly display. (Converting to utf8)
• Do no close the popup, when mouse over.
• Remember previous path in file-selectors.
• Add quick-playlist-add menu to favorite button.
• Add ‘search-as-you-type’ option to search.
• Support easy-command via gmpc-remote
• Allow to jump to metadata browser from now playing.

Updates

• A updated hicolor theme.
• Make metadata browser use the style off the new now-playing browser.
• Fix sorting order off the Database browser.
• Speedup filling of directory view in file browser.
• Fixed several smaller and larger memory leaks.
• Sorting bug in metadata.
• Remove unused function.
• metadata browser: Double click opens song, not plays it.

Removed

• Do not load weblinks from the wiki anymore (possible security risk)

Build updates

• Do not include vala generated C code, generate this build time. (in git)

At this time I have _no_ old hw connected anymore that could have caused it:

dmesg output:

[  914.271400] input: Logitech USB Receiver as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb7/7-2/7-2:1.0/input/input71
[  914.317881] generic-usb 0003:046D:C508.0044: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-2/input0
[  915.876019] usb 7-2: reset low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 69
[  917.660015] usb 7-2: reset low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 69
[  919.504013] usb 7-2: reset low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 69
[  921.236013] usb 7-2: reset low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 69
[  922.940017] usb 7-2: reset low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 69
[  924.608518] usb 7-2: reset low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 69
[  926.428018] usb 7-2: reset low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 69
[  928.164517] usb 7-2: reset low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 69
[  929.932512] usb 7-2: reset low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 69
[  931.144541] hub 7-0:1.0: port 2 disabled by hub (EMI?), re-enabling…
[  931.144546] usb 7-2: USB disconnect, address 69
[  931.412018] usb 7-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 70
[  931.609883] usb 7-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[  931.646140] input: Logitech USB Receiver as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb7/7-2/7-2:1.0/input/input72
[  931.672076] generic-usb 0003:046D:C508.0045: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-2/input0
[  933.100014] usb 7-2: reset low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 70
[  933.425876] usb 7-2: failed to restore interface 0 altsetting 0 (error=-71)
[  933.426704] usb 7-2: USB disconnect, address 70
[  933.696518] usb 7-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 71
[  933.896978] usb 7-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[  933.917200] input: Logitech USB Receiver as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb7/7-2/7-2:1.0/input/input73
[  933.944582] generic-usb 0003:046D:C508.0046: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-2/input0
[  935.388014] usb 7-2: reset low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 71
[  937.236514] usb 7-2: reset low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 71
[  939.176013] usb 7-2: reset low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 71
[  940.568040] hub 7-0:1.0: port 2 disabled by hub (EMI?), re-enabling…
[  940.568045] usb 7-2: USB disconnect, address 71
[  940.832010] usb 7-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 72
[  941.037076] usb 7-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[  941.079588] input: Logitech USB Receiver as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb7/7-2/7-2:1.0/input/input74
[  941.105736] generic-usb 0003:046D:C508.0047: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-2/input0
[  942.544011] usb 7-2: reset low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 72
[  944.328011] usb 7-2: reset low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 72
[  944.784042] hub 7-0:1.0: port 2 disabled by hub (EMI?), re-enabling…
[  944.784048] usb 7-2: USB disconnect, address 72
[  945.048012] usb 7-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 73
[  945.245636] usb 7-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[  945.264659] input: Logitech USB Receiver as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb7/7-2/7-2:1.0/input/input75
[  945.292776] generic-usb 0003:046D:C508.0048: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-2/input0
[  946.824014] usb 7-2: reset low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 73
[  948.564011] usb 7-2: reset low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 73
[  950.312010] usb 7-2: reset low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 73
[  952.024018] usb 7-2: reset low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 73
[  952.720043] hub 7-0:1.0: port 2 disabled by hub (EMI?), re-enabling…
[  952.720047] usb 7-2: USB disconnect, address 73
[  952.984016] usb 7-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 74
[  953.188768] usb 7-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[  953.232991] input: Logitech USB Receiver as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb7/7-2/7-2:1.0/input/input76
[  953.256103] generic-usb 0003:046D:C508.0049: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-2/input0
[  954.648514] usb 7-2: reset low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 74
[  956.432016] usb 7-2: reset low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 74
[  958.192516] usb 7-2: reset low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 74
[  959.936017] usb 7-2: reset low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 74
[  961.688012] usb 7-2: reset low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 74
[  963.544014] usb 7-2: reset low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 74
[  965.384515] usb 7-2: reset low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 74
[  967.240515] usb 7-2: reset low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 74

What is causing this? On one computer it was a bad cap on the motherboard causing the whole pci bus to reset, but here that isn’t the case.

ATM my keyboard is the victim, and I am constantly missing characters, or seeing them 10 times.

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This are a few issues I currently have with it.

• Safari crashes. On several sites that validate nicely it crashes. It is not consistent, sometimes it works, sometimes it fails.
• Sometimes safari fails to zoom in on the page. mostly before crashing.
• Volume control sometimes fails. I need to turn it off and on again to be able to control it again.
• I tried playing games on it, it is almost instant battery drain.  Not the game platform they promise.
• GPS is rubbish. Not a little bit, complete rubbish.
• It often thinks I rotated the screen when I only slightly tilt it.
• Battery life is far from consistent. It never discharges at the same rate.
• etc.

As agenda it still works ok. But the user experience isn’t that much improving on updates.

I see corrupt screen, blue screen and update. Over and over again.

At the moment it is stuck in a reboot cycle.

Lets hope I can get it running again.

I wanted to burn a file on a cd, so in nautilus I typed burn:// added the files, pressed burned.

This nicely stopped with the message:

BraseroGenisoimage stopping
Session error : The file is not stored locally (brasero_burn_record burn.c:2650)

Well I got a few things to say about that.

1. ARE YOU F******* CRAZY. I KNOW THAT.
2. ARE YOU F******* CRAZY.
3. That file is on a nfs share, located on a raid system connected via a gigabit network.  I get 60-70 mbyte/sec from that share.  MORE then sufficient to burn a cd, or a dvd..
4. Ok Ok, I can see that for some users you need to warn them.. but just to quit with an error is madness itself. ATLEAST ALLOW ME TO FRIGGING CONTINUE.

I always stayed out of the discussion that GNOME would assume users more stupid with every release, but hitting this, I can only agree.

There is also no entry in regedit gconf-editor to disable this idiotic behauviour.

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