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We use two HDD's 4 TB each (now 3 TB in use).
At this moment 4GB memory using for PF.
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So does PF show 4GB of main memory usage within the TaskManager?
How many media library entries (tracks) do you have?
Sounds like it might be a out of memory issue.
So using the Media Library Server might help!
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Curious, what is the "Media Library Server"? Is this part of ONAIR?
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Well, I learn something new every day! lol! I only have one PC though, but I noticed ONAIR takes a long time every time I start it to scan all my files, then if I want to start playing something on ONAIR right away, everything slows down. Perhaps this setup would improve the speed of ONAIR especially on slower PC's?
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Depends a bit on slow your PC is.
However the Media Library Server might also run on the same PC of course!
Just try it out...
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Bernd, we use 54 mediafile entries.
Amount of tracks 300.000
So I gues a Media Library Server would do a good job for us.
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Yes, that's sounds like very reasonable.
You might even put it on the same PC I guess as you have 12GB available.
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Yes.
As you know PFOA loads all media libraries into main memory. The media library server is a separate application which does exactly what PFOA is doing in terms of media libraries.

The Media Library Server is located in the install directory and can be started from there directly.
As such you can define your media libraries within the server in the same way as PFOA is doing. Now the media libs are loaded within the media library server instead of PFOA.
To access these from PFOA you need to use a remote media libray, which basically needs the machine name and port of the running server to access it.

E.g. start the Media Library Server on the machine containing all your audio files.
Define media libraries within the Media Library Server as needed.
Then define remote media libraries on each ProppFrexx ONAIR instance running. Remote media libraries always access the Media Library Server instead of loading the libs into memory, in this case they are only loaded into the Media Library Server memory but not to the ONAIR instances.
Make sure to use UNC or absolute paths for the libs on the Media Library Server, so that each ONAIR instance accessing it can find the related audio files.
As such the Media Library Server offers a central repository of media libraries, which can be used by any ONAIR instance within your network.
On the machine running the Media Library Server you can of course also run an ONAIR instance to e.g. maintain your audio files, folders, lib playlists etc.
All other ONAIR instances within your network then use these central libs as remote libs from this central repository.

A remote media library is a media library defined and existing on a 'ProppFrexx Media Library Server'. The 'ProppFrexx Media Library Server' is a small application shipped with ProppFrexx ONAIR. Its available on in certain editions.
As such make sure to not define them twice, e.g. Once you use the media library server you can remove all other libs directly defined within PFOA!
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If your library footprint really becomes an issue you can use the provided "Media Library Server" - which is also provided as an extra tool for free (see the installation folder) and can run this tool on any machine in your network - even the same PC - its a 32/64-bit app, which runs as an 64-bit app on a 64-bit OS or a 32-bit app on a 32-bit OS - giving you all the memory headroom you need.
This one also loads all libs into memory first - but ProppFrexx ONAIR now accesses this server remotely - that's what the "Add Remote" button is for when defining media libs!
When a remote media lib is in use, ProppFrexx ONAIR always accesses the media lib remotely via TCP/IP and gets all the info from that "Media Library Server" in real-time.
The Media Library Server can now even scan your folders, database in the background etc. to retrieve all the meta data - just like ProppFrexx ONAIR can do.

This tool runs as a tray application in the background and can run on any machine within your network and can provide so called Remote Media Libraries to any ProppFrexx ONAIR instance. The ProppFrexx Media Library Server manages playlist, folder or database based media libraries defined on a central server repository. A ProppFrexx ONAIR instance can attach to any Media Library Server and use those central libraries, query media entries from those servers just as if they had been defined locally. This allows you to e.g. store all your audio content on a central, secured, shared network drive which is accessible by all ProppFrexx ONAIR instances and let central Media Library Servers manage those content/libraries. Long running TAG reading, synchronization, refresh and availability tasks can now be moved to a central Media Library Server instead of running within ProppFrexx ONAIR. This tool might be essential in larger, multi studio setups where a central audio content server is required which can also be used in a HA environment.
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Can you import the current media libraries from inside of ONAIR to the media server? Would hate to have to re-enter everything.
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