I was able to spend a few hours today troubleshooting the stability issue, which seems to be related to a lack of server optimizations, combined with increased web-crawler (indexing) bots scanning the site. Too much load, combined with bad settings, and the server would just hang itself.

Hopefully ...

Hi everyone, just a quick note to let you know that the ChamConSoft.com server has been experiencing a lot of downtime lately. I am aware, and I'm troubleshooting trying to determine the root issue. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

If you notice the server down, feel free to email me to make sure ...

Hey Jamie, thanks for chiming in.

I don't think you've ever mentioned that audiobooks lose their spot when you close CMC. It never even occurred to me that this is something that is needed. I always think of this as the music library, and don't save position data when playing music. But for ...

Please provide a full list of audio extensions for me to double-check. Sometimes it's as simple as me adding the text into the search filter string. Sometimes it requires me adding new libraries. And sometimes there really is no support.

I believe Jamie already uses the audio library for pod casts ...

That's a good question. I'll have to check. I have noticed that the latest versions of VLC work much better and have more features. For example, recently when watching TV episodes, I've seen it auto-close and return to CMC so that CMC can auto-advance to the next episode. It used to be that only MPC ...

I'm not quite sure I follow the logic of writing the data to the media shares via CCC.

I put the path validation logic in CCC because CCC has the direct data feed from My Movies, and My Movies data can get corrupted due to bugs, so checking that each path from My Movies points to a reachable ...

Yes, I fixed it, it'll be in the next beta.

But the problem is bigger than Brian is alluding to.

I was recently troubleshooting this issue with another user. They have hundreds of TV Series, and only about 10% of them were showing in CMC. Of course, the problem was the -1 on the stars rating.

But ...

Yes, the client automatically updates the server. It's a convenience feature. You download the new client, but it requires a newer server version. Rather than crippling the system, the client uploads the new CCC to the server, and the server updates itself.

Downgrades are manual. Just close CCC ...

Just one of the many joys of being an ardent My Movies user...

This is an issue I've struggled with for years. I've reported it to the compiler developer years ago. I've spent many hundreds of hours troubleshooting and trying to solve it.

My best advice to you is that it is unlikely to be resolved. I will look at it further, but I don't want to get your hopes ...