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I have a folder with 790 mp3's in it from Deepak Chopra's - Buddha A Story of Enlightenment. I cant seem to access the folder. I dont have this problem with other folders except the only thing I can think of is that there are too many files in it. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions what to do?

It's a known aspect of Subsonic that it likes folders with a small number of tracks inside that allows the database to operate more efficiently. 790 files in one folder is the most likely cause of the problems you are seeing. Adding subfolders and grouping files in logical subgroups would help. If these can be ordered by chapters or some other logical subgrouping, it should improve the db processing.

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EDIT: You probably can't listen to the whole collection in one sitting anyway, so my suggestion would be to remove the files from you Subsonic library, then add folders in logical groups little by little to see how it affects performance. That way, by the time you've listened to the whole collection, you'll know if you've done it in a way that doesn't compromise performance of the database.

Ya that totally makes sense. I was looking at each file also and see that each one is only 13 seconds long!? I have no idea why the files were ripped that way. Anyway I appreciate the response I figured it was something like that. I am going to delete the files and I am going to rip the files from the cd myself. I looked at the cd and they are not like that on it anyway.

Does anyone know what the max files are? Has anyone played around and knows what the limits are for Subsonic?

I can't give yopu any definitive numbers, but if a typical folder has the typical number of tracks that a typical album has, you'll get good performance. We usually start to see performance issues with users that have hundreds of files in one directory folder. I'd try to keep each folder to around a max of 20, but I have a few with more than that and my system is OK. I think once you star getting around 100 or so you'll probably start to see degradation, but it probably is also affected by individal hardware capabilities as well.

ok thank you very much for your help!