BertL
Active Member
Thanks for the detailed post.
On my new X I have two USB sticks. The 256Gb one with 5200 tracks never finishes loading ( I was on a recent road trip and it didn't load in the time between supercharger stops!). A small stick with 250 songs did load quickly and was remembered between stops.
Did you do anything special to get your 6100 songs to load? Any idea why yours loads quickly and mine never finishes?
Also, I use dbpoweramp, do you have a script for the changes you would be willing to share? I use replaygain, but would be willing to apply the volume changes directly, to avoid at least that issue. Same for embedded art, which does not always work.
On 2.40.21 the search at least works correctly for me.
- I've never tried two USB devices at once, so do not know what complexities that creates or not, especially since Tesla has never documented their intent.
- As I suggest in the long post above, I suspect the issue with with my 6100 stick that worked fine with 7.1, and never completed loading with 8.0 was somehow related to memory constraints. Tag data that shows up in the interface has to go somewhere as it's scanned, and like predecessor releases, things seem to slow to a crawl as internal memory limits are perhaps reached. It does not appear Tesla has done much to set actual upper limits or just stop and notify the user when it's out of resources. Anyway, I won't try to defend it to anyone here (plenty of people that live to take exception with others on this forum), but given I took my source 6100 stick that worked with 7.2 and not 8.0, and stripped out TRACKARTIST tag data on all tracks with everything else being the same, and it then worked in 8.0, I believe that is sufficient to prove the point at least to myself. SO, my solution as you asked for, is to put ALBUMARTIST in where TRACKARTIST is on all tracks... since I have lots of Broadway, Compilations, etc, that likely reduces memory usage considerably, and again, IMHO allows the tracks to load. Try it. That's easy with dBpoweramp.
- Sorry, in terms of documenting more detail on setup, perhaps some day. I've now put somewhere in excess of 30 hours trying to understand, document back to TMC, and build workarounds with this nutty 8.0, and am honestly tired of it now. Jury Duty begins Monday, so it's low in my list to get more detailed than I already have tried to be. Sorry. Look at the last part of my post. All the detail is there pretty much in the order it's accessible and modifiable in dBpoweramp. Its just which buttons to push and where to put those options that you'll have to explore a bit.
- My understanding of ReplayGain is perhaps different than yours. Depending upon what you have selected, you either are or are not getting benefits with Tesla's Media Player that has no knowledge of those tags today. Take a look at the dBpoweramp Volume Normalization DSP instead and use adaptive like I suggested above. It takes time, but will rewrite your physical track copies so the volume is more consistent. I'd never do that to my source library, but on a copy for use only in my Tesla, sure.
- Art has issues, again as mentioned above and in my former posts in this and the primary 8.0 thread. In dBPoweramp, turn on the force JPEG option as I suggest above. That helped me get over another hurdle with some that were not appearing. Still unsure if it was a 100% workaround as I have not inspected 6K+ tracks individually sitting in my MS, but several specific examples I had noted to myself as failing before, now are appearing.
- Glad to hear about search... my Tesla isn't as good understanding me as Siri by a long shot, so I'm not sure it will be of high value to me. I'd rather have more of the basic bugs and organizational issues resolved in the interface than anything if I had anything to say about their priorities.
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