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Again, thanks for the detailed reply -- and, of course, for your work in supporting this fine streaming server. I restarted the test and after the activity settled down (actually the next day), tried to open one album (not in a playlist). This set off another long session of database activity where ...

Nadahar, Thank you so much for your prompt and very detailed reply. I have been looking at this today and found that because I had turned off the "Enable the Media Library" flag, since I didn't really use it, UMS apparently decided not to scan on start. When I re-enabled this flag it did s...

I had already arrived at the idea of turning off generation of thumbnails, but hadn't turned off cover art, which I have now done. I also have put a compatible version of ffmpeg in the Linux folder. Haven't installed MEncoder or MPlayer yet, although will do so soon. (I do have a compatible version ...

Gee, I thought I ran it in trace mode. Of course, then it crashed and I had to restart it to Pack up the files. So the useful log should be debug.log.prev, which is very long and very detailed. Plus, it (debug.log.prev) has the line: DEBUG 2018-05-11 11:52:03.492 [main] net.pms.PMS Forcing debug lev...

Sirs, I have a Pi3b running latest stretch and on which I installed UMS 7.0.1 It seemed to run pretty well for music when I used some small test collections of mp3s. (Oddly it does not work for me at all for streaming video to a Google chromecast, even though a prior version 7.0.0 rc2 worked fine in...