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Something we realised when answering support emails was that it would be useful to be able to disable fingerprinting in certain cases. Stay tuned for more! Disabling fingerprints Our latest tests (which are with the version currently in development, out in a fortnight) show the scan takes just over 1hr, so quite a big improvement. In our testing, we configured a DS220j (which has 512MB RAM and a sloooow ex-laptop hard disk) and loaded a music library of 34,000 tracks - just over 2,000 albums. Also, this doesn’t cover rule assessment or fixes, just the scan and creation of albums. This isn’t the end of it as I said there are improvements in the next build too in this area. Parallelism across multiple databases (tag index, music model, activity stream) has been increased.We’ve reduced the number of lookups for information we make from the tag index - batching them together.We’ve made the identifiers we use for files, tags and libraries much smaller.We have changed the database we use to cache information like fingerprints and last modified times.We are stricter about the fields we store in our “tag index”, avoiding storing overly lengthy fields (like lyrics).So our scanning/indexing improvements in this release are: The tag index makes it faster to answer, for example, all the music files which are in the album Discovery (or whatever). Almost all of these updates pertain only to the initial reading-in of music files and the storage of tags in a “tag index” for later retrieval.

We’ve made a number of changes in this and the next build (currently going through development). So we decided to look into making bliss run faster with less memory. But for those lower powered devices with small amounts of RAM, tied with the slower processors in these devices, often mean a slower experience.

That doesn’t cover all Synology NASes there are plenty with 1GB or more that run better. Other more memory-capacious platforms run with at least double that. These devices typically have no more than 512MB RAM, and as a result bliss is prescribed to occupy no more than 128MB (1/4 of system RAM is a good rule of thumb to avoid an app taking over the operation of the device too much). We’ve been getting some feedback from Synology users that bliss, when running on lower powered Synology NASes, just runs too slowly. Other operating systems | uninstall | Terms of Service Harder, better, faster… stronger?

Download the new for mac Elsten Software Bliss 20231114