2014-03-28, 00:50
garretn, I doubtless am not alone in hoping you get to the bottom of this. I'm a hardware-leaning sort of PC geek, but 99.5% of my knowledge/experience is with Windows (Right back to about '92-'93). I know very little about Linux. I know enough to do basic maintenance of my ReadyNAS devices over SSH, but that's my limit.
To the point... I've been using NFS on Frodo for the past 12 months. I switched over to it at that time, as back them I was using a Wireless adapter with my HTPC and access latency / overall throughput was a bit lacking (Wireless-G back then). I've since dabbled with Powerline, Powerline AV-500, a Wired connection to a Netgear WNCE4004 Wireless Acces Point/Bridge and now a D-Link DAP1522/B Wireless-N (300) Access Point / Bridge. The router is a WNDR3200 (Also Wireless-N 300 AFAIK).
I've not 'seen' issues with library files going AWOL as far as i've noticed, what I have witnessed on Frodo is problems with cdART Manager sometimes not saving files it downloads back to the NAS (CD artwork, folder.jpgs, fanart / etc) evidenced by blank areas when it shows you downloaded art at the end of a run. At the time I put this down to permissions on some of the folders on the NAS not being set properly by some of the apps in use outside of XBMC <cough!>Headphones</cough!> so put that issue down to this. The thing being when I did get a blank image post cdART Manager run, on that system, usually it was 1-2 images, tops.
Likewise in Beta 1 (albeit for the limited amount of time I was playing around with it before Beta 2) I was getting multiple entries for the same album, like has been mentioned in this thread, but again I put that down to some albums having tracks that were extras, or that release I have not having been uploaded to MusicBrainz. Corrected two entries for two CD's I own just this week to correct issues like this.
But Since Beta 2, no artwork over 300*300px (approx) for the Music Library would load. About 80% of the entire library had no artwork. But, some of it was working. Funny thing is, all the backdrops / thumbnails, and poster art for Movies was working fine. But then again, having done a clean install, this may well have been because of Artwork Downloader / tinyMediaManager is/was using remote links for artwork in the nfo files for Movies / TV rather than the local files. I didn't think to check. Now i'm back on SMB since it looked like NFS being a long-term breakage. That's been the sum total of my experiences up till this point.
I will point out that I was using a MySQL Db also running on the NAS through the Eden-Frodo period. But the additions to Gotham make library scraping so terminally slow over MySQL, i've disabled this too now. The convienience of not having to update 3+ installs manually was being severely offset by the length of time required for a single scan to complete (12 hours+ for 25,000 track library or thereabouts). Movies are/were still as swift as they've always been with local nfo files, and not really too shabby (even with MySQL) using remote info.
To the point... I've been using NFS on Frodo for the past 12 months. I switched over to it at that time, as back them I was using a Wireless adapter with my HTPC and access latency / overall throughput was a bit lacking (Wireless-G back then). I've since dabbled with Powerline, Powerline AV-500, a Wired connection to a Netgear WNCE4004 Wireless Acces Point/Bridge and now a D-Link DAP1522/B Wireless-N (300) Access Point / Bridge. The router is a WNDR3200 (Also Wireless-N 300 AFAIK).
I've not 'seen' issues with library files going AWOL as far as i've noticed, what I have witnessed on Frodo is problems with cdART Manager sometimes not saving files it downloads back to the NAS (CD artwork, folder.jpgs, fanart / etc) evidenced by blank areas when it shows you downloaded art at the end of a run. At the time I put this down to permissions on some of the folders on the NAS not being set properly by some of the apps in use outside of XBMC <cough!>Headphones</cough!> so put that issue down to this. The thing being when I did get a blank image post cdART Manager run, on that system, usually it was 1-2 images, tops.
Likewise in Beta 1 (albeit for the limited amount of time I was playing around with it before Beta 2) I was getting multiple entries for the same album, like has been mentioned in this thread, but again I put that down to some albums having tracks that were extras, or that release I have not having been uploaded to MusicBrainz. Corrected two entries for two CD's I own just this week to correct issues like this.
But Since Beta 2, no artwork over 300*300px (approx) for the Music Library would load. About 80% of the entire library had no artwork. But, some of it was working. Funny thing is, all the backdrops / thumbnails, and poster art for Movies was working fine. But then again, having done a clean install, this may well have been because of Artwork Downloader / tinyMediaManager is/was using remote links for artwork in the nfo files for Movies / TV rather than the local files. I didn't think to check. Now i'm back on SMB since it looked like NFS being a long-term breakage. That's been the sum total of my experiences up till this point.
I will point out that I was using a MySQL Db also running on the NAS through the Eden-Frodo period. But the additions to Gotham make library scraping so terminally slow over MySQL, i've disabled this too now. The convienience of not having to update 3+ installs manually was being severely offset by the length of time required for a single scan to complete (12 hours+ for 25,000 track library or thereabouts). Movies are/were still as swift as they've always been with local nfo files, and not really too shabby (even with MySQL) using remote info.
