tag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:/discussions/problems/46408-beatunes-does-not-want-to-start-working-anymorebeaTunes: Discussion 2017-09-14T11:06:48Ztag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/428840092017-07-01T15:54:50Z2017-07-01T15:54:50ZBeatunes does not want to start working anymore<div><p>Hey René,</p>
<p>How much physical RAM does your computer have? 4GB?</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/428840092017-07-01T17:43:08Z2017-09-14T11:04:03ZBeatunes does not want to start working anymore<div><p>My PC has 8 GB memory.</p>
<p>KR,<br>
René</p>
<p>Op 1 jul. 2017 17:54 schreef "hendrik" <a href="mailto:tender+dc41d53bd6@tenderapp.com">tender+dc41d53bd6@tenderapp.com</a>:</p></div>watersource67tag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/428840092017-07-01T18:12:35Z2017-07-01T18:12:35ZBeatunes does not want to start working anymore<div><p>Hey René,</p>
<p>because of your rather large music collection, beaTunes automatically increased some memory parameters and more or less hit a ceiling.</p>
<p>Can you please try the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>If you have any really big programs running (like Photoshop), quit them.</li>
<li>Follow the instructions in <a href="http://help.beatunes.com/kb/troubleshooting/manually-changing-the-beatunes-memory-configuration-on-windows">this article</a>.</li>
<li>Set the <code>BEATUNES_MEMORY</code> variable to <code>-Xmx1G</code> (higher than in the article)</li>
<li>Start beaTunes.</li>
<li>Before you do anything else, open beaTunes' general preferences and turn <code>Synchronize on window activation</code> off.</li>
<li>Then proceed to use beaTunes.</li>
</ul>
<p>Does that work better?</p>
<p>Should beaTunes crash or should you need to restart beaTunes, the steps above will be reverted and you'll probably see the same crash again you have seen before. Right now, I just want to find out whether <code>2GB</code> is a big enough heap (memory) setting for you.</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/428840092017-07-01T18:58:14Z2017-09-14T11:04:03ZBeatunes does not want to start working anymore<div><p>Hey Hendrik,</p>
<p>I have noticed the setting BEATUNES_MEMORY already as value 3072M. According to your instruction I have changed this to -Xmx1G. This unfortunately resulted in the attached error when restarting Beatunes and repair of the database failed.</p>
<p>Thanks for your support.</p>
<p>Kind regards,<br>
René</p></div>watersource67tag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/428840092017-07-01T21:20:31Z2017-07-01T21:20:31ZBeatunes does not want to start working anymore<div><p>Hey René,</p>
<p>please answer <code>Yes</code> to that question.</p>
<p>And my apologies, I had meant to write <code>-Xmx2G</code>, not <code>-Xmx1G</code>.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I have noticed the setting BEATUNES_MEMORY already as value 3072M. According to your instruction I have changed this to -Xmx1G. This unfortunately resulted in the attached error when restarting Beatunes and repair of the database failed.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The repair was triggered by the earlier crash—I'd forgotten about that. As stated above, please <em>rebuild</em> your database.</p>
<p>After the rebuild, please turn <code>Synchronize on window activation</code> off and check in the <code>About</code> dialog what the memory settings are. It should be less than <code>3072m</code>.</p>
<p>I'm rather surprised to be honest that you are running into the memory issues with 8GB.</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/428840092017-07-01T21:59:38Z2017-09-14T11:04:03ZBeatunes does not want to start working anymore<div><p>Hey Hendrik,</p>
<p>No Problem, I have changed the setting to -Xmx2G and started Beatunes. It now started syncronizing with the music library which I could not interrupt. After some time Beatunes unfortunately closed down again (without further actions from me, or me being able to change the setting you mentioned yet). When I now restart Beatunes another time I get the message that last time Beatunes has crashed.<br>
I have added the crash report again. Hope this clarifies for you what is happening.</p>
<p>Thanks for your help,<br>
KR,<br>
René</p></div>watersource67tag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/428840092017-07-02T14:40:09Z2017-07-02T14:40:09ZBeatunes does not want to start working anymore<div><p>Hey René,</p>
<p>I took another look at your logs file. It turns out your Page File size (swap space) is a little low. Swap space is the space on your hard drive, that the operating system uses to make up for low physical RAM. In the case of beaTunes this does not necessarily mean, the space is really used, it just needs to be possible to <em>reserve</em> the space. Please increase its size to at least twice your physical RAM, i.e. 16GB.</p>
<p>To do so, please follow tipps like <a href="https://www.geeksinphoenix.com/blog/post/2016/05/10/how-to-manage-windows-10-virtual-memory.aspx">https://www.geeksinphoenix.com/blog/post/2016/05/10/how-to-manage-w...</a> There are other recipes <a href="http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/faq/id-2864547/manage-virtual-memory-pagefile-windows.html">available on the web</a>.</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, did you see messages saying something about low virtual memory? Any other messages regarding memory from the operating system?</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/428840092017-07-02T22:35:41Z2017-09-14T11:04:03ZBeatunes does not want to start working anymore<div><p>Hey Hendrik,</p>
<p>Thanks, this seems to have done the trick. I now notice that Beatunes is now able to use 2.633 M memory and is now proceeding to analyze the songs that have not been analyzed yet.</p>
<p>BTW is there a way to select all not analyzed songs so they can be analyzed?</p>
<p>Thanks,<br>
René</p></div>watersource67tag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/428840092017-07-03T05:49:22Z2017-07-03T05:49:22ZBeatunes does not want to start working anymore<div><p>Hey René,</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Thanks, this seems to have done the trick. I now notice that Beatunes is now able to use 2.633 M memory and is now proceeding to analyze the songs that have not been analyzed yet.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Great.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>BTW is there a way to select all not analyzed songs so they can be analyzed?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Assuming you have analyzed BPM, sort by BPM and then select the songs that don't have any. Then <code>File</code> -> <code>Analyze</code> (or via the context menu). You could do the same with color or key.</p>
<p>That said, if you don't have beaTunes <em>replace</em> existing properties, beaTunes is smart enough to skip songs during analysis that have already been analyzed.</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendriktag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/428840092017-09-14T11:06:06Z2017-09-14T11:06:07ZBeatunes does not want to start working anymore<div><p>Hi Hendrik,</p>
<p>Problem seems to be solved now. Thanks for your help on this.</p>
<p>Kind regards,<br>
René</p></div>watersource67