That application freezing seems to be gone even after extended play of over 2.5 hours after my last change. Normally it shows up slightly in a half hour or less and gets wors as it moves on.
I had ruled out database versions as I tried MariaDB 10.5 and 11.6. I didn’t want to try 10.3 which is packaged with the application. I stayed with 10.5 just because that’s what I have been using the past few years and wanted to keep all my categories and changes I had made.
The fix seemed to be a complete uninstall. Before the uninstall I copied the data and program folders in place. Then uninstalled, started a new install, refused to install the packaged10.3 MariaDB DB, imported my music files.
When the SAM application came up all my encoders that convert the music to point to my relay servers were not in place and neither were the statistical relays or my categories of music. Now I shut down the application and database, then moved the copied data and program files back into place and started the DB, then the application.
Well, I should have gone to 11.6 as I ended up wiping out some of the database instance information anyway. I didn’t deem it important enough to restore it to an older date if I was able to mass load the album covers and track information from the songs I had properly tagged. Well, the mass loading of track information and album covers from those files worked and created the correct pointers in the database.
In summary the reason for the re-install and moving of the directories was because I caught some permission issues and unhandled exception errors. Application permission errors performing a backup which I just needed to change those folders permissions. There used to be an option to select different folders to backup to. I have evidence of years of backups to my other drive.
The other remedy was during the install pointing to a my USB sound river device even though I had done that withing the cross-fade and mixer configs.
For now, I’ll monitor and take a backup of the MariaDB database instance and monitor the music and system performance.
