A little performance suggestion for XBMC

I love the XBMC media center and it’s the best I have seen so far.

But I have alway thought it was a little slow when starting playing media and upgrading the library was a killer.

I have read a lot about how to setup XBMC on remote shares and every body was pointing out: Always use Samda to connect to your media.

I have a Synology box with all my media and it can use Samba as well as NFS.
But of cause I used Samba to connect to it from my mediacenter and PC’s.

The reason to use Samba was the problem with Upper/Lower case letters in media names.

I was thinking a bit about this and found that it was not a problem for me.
I have a lot of CD’s and when I ripped them I always organize them with MusicBrainz Picard so I knew exactly where the media is stored.

I tried to connect to the Synology box using NFS and to my surprise media started playing right away.

My head had to banged into the wall a couple of times because all the time I have spend trying to optimize network, MySQL and buying memory for the Synology box. :mrgreen:

 

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