Newbie help Please

[Exnavy]

OK, I'll admit I'm a newbie to TIVO media, but not to PC's. I published a sample folder of MP3's to the TIVO Desktop software and all went well. So I published my MAIN music folder (20+GB)...not so good. The Desktop takes 5-6 minutes to load, I've got to keep clicking on retry to get it running, and my TIVO unit (a series 2 Humax) times out trying to connect. The music folders show up, but when I try to play one or open it up, I get the wait message and it times out after 30-45 seconds and says the server may be busy, etc etc... I've put the server settings to High Performance and 500MB Buffer (V2.3a) and that doesn't seem to help, any ideas? P.S. the Server is running on Win XPSP2, Dual Core Pentium, 1 GB RAM, 250 GB dedicated media drive :(

[dlfl]

OK, I'll admit I'm a newbie to TIVO media, but not to PC's. I published a sample folder of MP3's to the TIVO Desktop software and all went well. So I published my MAIN music folder (20+GB)...not so good. The Desktop takes 5-6 minutes to load, I've got to keep clicking on retry to get it running, and my TIVO unit (a series 2 Humax) times out trying to connect. The music folders show up, but when I try to play one or open it up, I get the wait message and it times out after 30-45 seconds and says the server may be busy, etc etc... I've put the server settings to High Performance and 500MB Buffer (V2.3a) and that doesn't seem to help, any ideas? P.S. the Server is running on Win XPSP2, Dual Core Pentium, 1 GB RAM, 250 GB dedicated media drive :(
I probably don't have your answer but I am pretty sure that whoever does is going to want to know what kind of network connection you have between the Tivo unit and PC.

The idea that suggests itself to me is that it's a combination of a huge directory structure (i.e, many, many song titles) and slow network speed. The TiVo unit is just taking a long time to read the directory structure.

We'll see what some real experts say .....

[windracer]

TiVo Desktop is not that good at handling huge music libraries like that. Check out Galleon (http://www.galleon.tv) which uses a database to index your music. TiVo Desktop has to retrieve the list every time you hit the folder, and that can timeout very easily with a library as large as yours.