My love hate relationship with Jinzora continues in my quest for the right method for sharing my music collection, on a Linux server, to my XP crippled work machine. For the indefinite future it looks like I need to keep one XP-crippled machine at home running J. River MediaCenter so that I can (A) listen to my music and (B) update my Last.fm profile; with Jinzora I can only get (A), (B) is a non-option at the moment, even though they insist that it is and it is easy. However, Last.fm doesn’t top my list of annoyances. Here’s what the as_debug.log shows:
9/19/06 1:11:01.02, user:james, jzCreateLink: ssid = e413355a887e4ab4a0d56a13cbdfc8c1
9/19/06 1:11:01.03, user:james, jzCreateLink: ssid = e413355a887e4ab4a0d56a13cbdfc8c1
9/19/06 1:11:01.04, user:james, jzCreateLink: ssid = e413355a887e4ab4a0d56a13cbdfc8c1
9/19/06 1:11:01.04, user:james, jzCreateLink: ssid = e413355a887e4ab4a0d56a13cbdfc8c1
9/19/06 1:11:01.05, user:james, jzCreateLink: ssid = e413355a887e4ab4a0d56a13cbdfc8c1
9/19/06 1:11:10.89, user:anon, mediabroadcast: SID = jza=e413355a887e4ab4a0d56a13cbdfc8c1
9/19/06 1:11:10.94, user:james, AudioScrobbler: Starting up (inside startup routine)
9/19/06 1:17:44.62, user:anon, mediabroadcast: SID = jza=e413355a887e4ab4a0d56a13cbdfc8c1
9/19/06 1:17:44.67, user:james, AudioScrobbler: Starting up (inside startup routine)
9/19/06 1:27:44.63, user:anon, mediabroadcast: SID = jza=e413355a887e4ab4a0d56a13cbdfc8c1
9/19/06 1:27:44.67, user:james, AudioScrobbler: Starting up (inside startup routine)
9/19/06 1:31:01.08, user:anon, mediabroadcast: SID = jza=e413355a887e4ab4a0d56a13cbdfc8c1
9/19/06 1:31:01.13, user:james, AudioScrobbler: Starting up (inside startup routine)
From what I can figure out it is generating the playlist and then the AudioScrobbler routine kicks off and then… Well, then nothing shows up at Last.fm.
When Jinzora is running, it is a well oiled machine that can take you to the places you want in style but getting started is a hassle beyond belief. Importing media is a huge pain in the ass. “What? How? All you do is let the little import wizard work its magic! n00b!” Yeah. Right. The wizard works great with small collections as anything over 9k will have it seize up like you shot it with a tranq gun tethered to a taser. the collection I tried importing over-and-over-and-over is only a paltry 23k and to finally get it imported I have to break it up into discrete 4-5k blocks. Not a big deal, I suppose, but one that had me gnashing my teeth for about two hours.
*Sigh*
I’m back to doing research on implementing a robust media serving solution, one that can come close to the functionality of J. River’s Media Center, but I’m not too optimistic.
