fidsift.sh -- rearrange /drive?/fids/ into subdirs

ftp myplayer

site rw

cd /

put fidsift.sh

chmod 0755 fidsift.sh

site ro

quit

Sifting /drive1/fids..

mkdir: created directory `_00000'

mkdir: created directory `_0'

mkdir: created directory `_00001'

mkdir: created directory `_00010'

mkdir: created directory `_1'

mkdir: created directory `_00011'

mkdir: created directory `_00012'

mkdir: created directory `_00013'

mkdir: created directory `_00014'

mkdir: created directory `_00015'

hijack: found new-style fids subdirectories

mkdir: created directory `_00016'

mkdir: created directory `_00017'

mkdir: created directory `_00018'

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xmodem or similar would be a lot better, but I don't think that there's any such stuff on the empeg to use.

The developer image supports ZModem transfers. How do you think we used to get the player binaries on there ourselves?

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Could this line be added to config.ini to run fidsift from HiJack?

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I'm not sure that there's a ps command normally available.

kill `for file in /proc/*/cmdline; do grep -v self $file>/dev/null && grep player $file>/dev/null && echo ${file:6:2} ; done`

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ps is there, at least on the developer install. I forgot, though, that it lists each thread as a different process. And awk is not available. Nor is tail. sed is, though. I'll have to figure out a good script for it. Also, you have to kill -2, otherwise it just restarts the player app. I'll get back to it later today.

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Hijack already moves the files for you...

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But yeah, how about perhaps a BBS category for nothing but "sticky" posts that link back to the original threads?

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Ah.. cool. I remember that being a feature, but I thought it was dropped at some point.

Also, it will only do it if the folders are already there... so if you added enough tracks to warrant a new folder, then it just dumps the fids into the root correct?

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PS - Anyone have any idea why searching for "fidsift" or "fidsift.sh" in the Subject field doesn't find this thread? I've tried to find it the last few days and was having trouble.

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I thought I'd give this thread a bump because it's being mentioned in the maxfid thread. One small side effect I found this weekend was that sorted fids are NOT compatible with version 1 of the player software.

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I don't think it is even fully implemented in v2.

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When the player was still at version 1.0, the FID files were all in the same directory (except when they were on separate disks, of course). As the number of files in a directory increases, the performance worsens.

At some point in the v2.0 beta releases, the player began supporting a slightly different layout for these two directories. In order to improve performance, the files can now be put into subdirectories.

...

This new layout is supported by the v2.0 players when looking for files, but when writing them, it uses the old, v1.0-compatible layout.

In v3.0, it writes the files to the new layout, but supports the old layout, to ensure that it works on players still using the old layout.

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Anyone have any idea why searching for "fidsift" or "fidsift.sh" in the Subject field doesn't find this thread?