SongKong Jaikoz

SongKong and Jaikoz Music Tagger Community Forum

Pro License, local musicbrainz server

#1

Following the instructions here:

http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Server/Setup

I have successfully setup a local MusicBrainz server via the virtual machine method, and I have Jaikoz using my local server. I’m trying to decided whether to upgrade to the pro version to speed up my tagging. Following the thread here:

http://www.jthink.com/jaikozforum/posts/list/1701.page

I’m not sure if my VM build will be sufficient. Apparently I may need to setup a ‘search server’ as well? There’s also something in the thread about the new NGS database changes? The thread is about a year old, so I’m hoping things have changed.

By buying a pro license, with my current VM only setup of a MB server, will I see the benefit of removing the one query per second limit? Or do I need to setup more of the MB environment locally?

Thanks in advance, and I think Jaikoz is great!

The Ourea

#2

Hi, if you dont setup a search server you’ll be able to avoid the 1 request per second limit for lookups but not searches, i.e about 50% percent of the request s Jaikoz makes will not be subject to the limit.

If you set up a search server then no requests will be subject to the limit.

Its relatively easy to setup the search server, although as you say if you are running mbserver and database in a Virtual Machine it could take quite a while to build the indexes.

#3

Paul, thanks for your quick response! I apologize in advance, as I think my questions are mostly MusicBrainz related, the Jaikoz piece itself is dead simple to use. That said, perhaps you could suggest the best course of action for me.

My library contains around 100,000 mp3 files. I have a linux box I can dedicate as a MB server, with 8GB RAM and 4 2.5Ghz cores. I can give the virtual machine 3 cores and 6GB of RAM. I am a competent software developer and system administrator, who enjoys (to a point) mucking around in these kinds of problems. My options, as I see them, are as follows:

1: Install the search server on my existing VM build. Least amount of configuration, easy backup/portability of the vm, but could take a long time to index.
2: Build from source the mbserver, and load data into Postgres, then install the search server. More configuration, but I end up with a native environment, could still take a long time to index.
3: Bag the whole thing, because it’s not worth the time spent setting all this up, and just get back to tagging my songs!

Are these the instructions I need to follow for the search server?: http://svn.musicbrainz.org/search_server/trunk/README
Roughly how long to index in the VM? Hours, days or weeks?
Were you in my shoes Paul, how would you proceed?

Thanks in advance,

The Ourea

#4

Hi

Well your machine is certainly powerful enough, much more powerful than my Mac labtop that I hava a local search server configured for and even with that it only takes 5 hours to do the whole lot, so we are certainly not talking days or weeks !

Search server is pretty easy to setup , and as I am now the main developer of this I can help you with it.

I’m not that au fait with VMs, but it may be that because you can give it a load of resource that it will be fine. Alternatively you can setup a new server, I have to admit evey time I’ve tried setting up the mbserver it has been a bit of a nightmare but then Ive always set it up on a Mac and the MB devloper team is very Linux centric, if you are setting it up on Linux I expect it will be alot easier than I found it.

So in summary 1 or 2 will both probably work for you, you should give it a go.

#5

Paul-

I was able to set up the search server in my VM, and indexes are being built now. Hopefully it will all work when it’s done processing, I’ve not tested a search yet.

I feel like I’m missing a step though… I don’t think I’ve ‘pointed’ my mbserver to use the new search server. Or maybe I point Jaikoz to use the new search server? Perhaps purchasing the pro license adds a new field to Preferences/MusicBrainz/MusicBrainz Server? Or maybe some magic happened in the setup, and I missed it :slight_smile:

Thanks,

The Ourea

#6

Correct

#7

Success! Thanks for your help Paul!

The Ourea

#8

would you be willing to post a copy of your vm on bittorrent with the search server already installed??? i would die for a complete setup vm that i just input the values into jaikoz into!

#9

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:7AC531DCE7478FC6452B98402E38600B668B80EA&dn=MusicBrainz%20VIRTUAL%20SERVER&tr=udp%3a//tracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80/announce

thanks to theroua! we now have a fully integrated (with search server) virtual musicbrainz appliance!

http://kat.ph/musicbrainz-virtual-server-w-search-function-t6594240.html

#10

Scribe can you seed it for a while? I’m trying to get it too

#11

yes sir, its seeding now! the more people from jaikoz to download it, the bigger the swarm the better the speed! so if we could get everyone to get a copy that would be great!

#12

Thanks mate, I will seed for a week after its done downloading.

#13

Please share correct links! Torcache is talking bout 404

#14

Its on that page he linked, click the magnet

#15

Any chance I can get more of you to post this database file? I promise to keep it up for awhile since I have fios. Just taking forever to download…need more participation please :slight_smile:

#16

pusihing to as many systes as i can! asap!

#17

Torrent is enough, must have good upload to share faster :slight_smile:

#18

My mom just kicked me an old apple g4 laptop today, complete with a MODEM, how quaint…But I digress… I’m loading it with MintPPC (debian based)

So I’m thinking of setting it up as a music brainz server. Anyone see a problems developing from this project?

#19

Im also downloading torrent, will continue to seed it if all works okay

#20

35Mb up and down. Two machines going…