Madsonic Support

hmm, interesting. this is my first time seeing any sort of thing like this as well. My experience with sleep is that threads of execution just pause and then turn back on. However, who knows exactly how Windows XP handles sleep or all of the other systems, for that matter. I would be a bit suspiciou...

Well, it took several iterations, but I ended up with a pretty simple solution. I wrote a Python script that checks the Madsonic log for the last time a song was played. If it was more than 120 minutes ago, then it puts the computer to sleep. I also added some logic with a "heartbeat" file...

I'm looking at custom coding a simple solution with Python. 1. Monitor CPU usage (either using Microsoft tool or 3rd party software - still investigating this) and trigger execution of a script when CPU reaches a certain level 2. Python script touches a temp file to update its modified timestamp 3. ...

Hi, I just repurposed an old Windows XP laptop as my permanent Madsonic server. I only use the server intermittently during the week, so don't want to leave the machine on 24/7 the rest of the time. I can easily set the power settings to suspend after X minutes and then wake up using wake on LAN, bu...