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aziz

21 Oct, 2014 10:49 AM

Hi,
My itunes library (all ALAC) id 5.5 terrabytes, does beatunes manage such a large library?
Any experiences?
What about yosemite?

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Hendrik Schreib... on 21 Oct, 2014 10:52 AM

   

   My itunes library (all ALAC) id 5.5 terrabytes, does beatunes manage such a large library?

   The size in bytes does not matter. Instead the number of songs is relevant. Also, how is the library connected to your computer? SSD, internal HDD, USB2, USB3, NAS? The faster the connection the better.

   What about yosemite?

   No known issues.

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2. 2 Posted by aziz dikeulias on 22 Oct, 2014 05:17 AM

   

   Hi,
   Thanks for the reply!
   I have about 167000tracks and they are connected through firewire to a nas
   drive (drobo) to a Makbookpro.
   Will it work?
   --Aziz

   From: hendrik
   <[email blocked]>

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Hendrik Schreib... on 22 Oct, 2014 07:55 AM

   

   Hey,

   you've got me a little puzzled. Strictly speaking, NAS(=Network Attached Storage) connected via FireWire is by definition not network attached.

   Drobo == DropBox? If the data is in the cloud, this will not work. The data needs to be locally stored.

   To my knowledge, FireWire has not been built into Macs for quite a while, which seems to imply fairly old hardware. My guess is, it will work, but it will be quite slow due to the size of the collection and the slow disk I/O (compared to an internal hard drive or an SSD).

   Also, because of your large collection, beaTunes may benefit from a little more RAM than usual. To grant it, please

   • start beaTunes (so that it runs at least once).
   • after it started up, shut it down again, without doing anything else.
   • follow the advice given here and increase the memory to 2GB
   • start beaTunes up again (you can verify the memory setting in the About dialog)

   (I'm assuming you have at least 4GB of physical RAM installed)

   My guess is, this will not be very much fun. But since the trial is free, you might as well give it a shot.

   Cheers,

   -hendrik

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4. 4 Posted by Aziz Dikeulias on 22 Oct, 2014 07:10 PM

   

   Hi there,
   again, thanks for answering me.
   First my system: Model Name: MacBook Pro
     Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,5
     Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
     Processor Speed: 2.53 GHz
     Number of Processors: 1
     Total Number of Cores: 2
     L2 Cache: 3 MB
     Memory: 8 GB
     Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
     Boot ROM Version: MBP55.00AC.B03
     SMC Version (system): 1.47f2
     Serial Number (system): W89512ED66J
     Hardware UUID: BDEF9DA0-F1DF-5AF1-AC53-5030B10B77F5
     Sudden Motion Sensor:
     State: Enabled
   I am running Yosemite.
   I ma getting an error message: "A fatal error during initialisation: org.hibernate exception JDBCC Connection Exception"

    and it freezes!
   All the data is on external Drobo of 4x3tb hard disks connected to the Mac via firewire 800, which is pretty fast.
   Any ideas?

   Thanks

       Aziz

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5. Support Staff 5 Posted by Hendrik Schreib... on 22 Oct, 2014 07:39 PM

   

   Hey,

   something seems to be wrong with the internal database.
   Can you send me your logs (whole folder, zipped), please?
   See http://help.beatunes.com/kb/troubleshooting/where-are-the-beatunes-... for where they are.

   Cheers,

   -hendrik

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6. 6 Posted by Aziz Dikeulias on 25 Oct, 2014 08:02 AM

   

   Hi Hendrik,

   thanks again for trying to help!
   Are these the files you wanted?
   Yosemite for some reason hides the Library... anyway, I eventually found it...

    
       Aziz

   • system-error.log.zip 287 Bytes
   • beaTunes.log.zip 42.7 KB
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7. Support Staff 7 Posted by Hendrik Schreib... on 25 Oct, 2014 10:05 AM

   

   Hi Aziz,

   please do the following:

   • follow the advice given here and increase the memory to 2GB: http://help.beatunes.com/kb/troubleshooting/manually-changing-the-b...
   • delete the folder /Users/azizdikeulias/Library/Application Support/beaTunes/Database/
   • download and install the current beaTunes version (4.0.11) from https://www.beatunes.com/beatunes-download.html

   Then start beaTunes—startup may take a while.
   If something goes wrong, please send me a fresh set of logs. It's usually easiest to simply zip the complete beaTunes logs folder, as the logs compress very well.

   Thank you,

   -hendrik

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