Trimming the fat: Plugins folder

[b1ackmai1er]

Hi,

I do not use most if not all of the plugins that are available as part of the standard installation. Since I am running LMS from RAM disk I would be happy to save the space. Am I safe to delete all of these from the plugins directory before starting LMS? I assume these are scanned and installed at startup. Does any of the main code reference these plugins?

Amazon/ DateTime/ Flickr/ LineIn/ MyApps/ Podcast/ RhapsodyDirect/ Snow/ Visualizer/
AppGallery/ Deezer/ InfoBrowser/ LineOut/ Napster/ RS232/ SN/ SongScanner/ WiMP/
AudioScrobbler/ DigitalInput/ InternetRadio/ Live365/ NetTest/ RSSNews/ SavePlaylist/ Sounds/ iTunes/
Base.pm Extensions/ JiveExtras/ MP3tunes/ OPMLBased.pm RadioTime/ Sirius/ SpotifyLogi/ xPL/
CLI/ Facebook/ LMA/ Mediafly/ OPMLGeneric/ RandomPlay/ Slacker/ TT/
Classical/ Favorites/ LastFM/ MusicMagic/ Pandora/ Rescan/ SlimTris/ UPnP/



Thanks.

[MeSue]

I would remove them from the plugins tab in the WebUI settings rather than deleting the folders. I don't know if all of those are safe to remove. I have removed these:
Classical
Deezer
Digital Inputs,
Flickr
Facebook
Info Browser
iTunes
Live Music Archive
Live365
Mediafly
MP3tunes
Orange Liveradio
Podcasts
Random Mix
RS232
RSS News
Save Playlist
SiriusXM
SlimTris
Snow
Spotify
Visualizer
Wimp
XPL Interface

[JJZolx]

I do not use most if not all of the plugins that are available as part of the standard installation. Since I am running LMS from RAM disk I would be happy to save the space. Am I safe to delete all of these from the plugins directory before starting LMS? I assume these are scanned and installed at startup. Does any of the main code reference these plugins?

I would disable them first from within the web interface so that the server doesn't complain. Go to Settings > Plugins and disable whatever you can. Some are grayed out and can't be disabled from the web ui. It is possible to disable them by editing the state.prefs file in the prefs/plugins folder, but I'd be careful.

The one that are grayed out, so maybe should not be disabled or deleted:

App Gallery (AppGallery)
Command Line Interface (CLI)
Favorites (Favorites)
Internet Radio (InternetRadio)
My Apps (MyApps)
Generic OPML Browser (OPMLGeneric)
Song Scanner (SongScanner)
Sounds & Effects (Sounds)
Tunein Radio (???)

I think some of these are grayed out simply so that people won't disable them and then wonder why something doesn't work.

The only optional plugins that I run are:

Date and Time (DateTime) - Clock screensavers.
Random Mix (RandomPlay) - My Music > Random Mix playback.
Rescan (Rescan) - A scheduler that can be used to scan the library once a day.

[b1ackmai1er]

Thanks for the suggestions.

I will try disabling them first and then try deleting them.

Cheers Phil.

[Mnyb]

They delete their own dir usually after you ticked them of in the web-UI and restarted the server, they can leave some prefs file maybe the more advanced plugs leaves some cruft.

[JJZolx]

They delete their own dir usually after you ticked them of in the web-UI and restarted the server, they can leave some prefs file maybe the more advanced plugs leaves some cruft.

I believe he's talking about the code for the standard plugins that are installed with the server. On my Windows server they're located in ..\server\Slim\Plugin. I think only 3rd party plugins installed from repositories get deleted when they're disabled.

I should have mentioned that the prudent way of doing this would be to move the individual plugin directories somewhere else, not actually delete them. Move them somewhere outside of the directories that are loaded into the RAMdisk, just in case you find that you need one in the future.

[Mnyb]

I believe he's talking about the code for the standard plugins that are installed with the server. On my Windows server they're located in ..\server\Slim\Plugin. I think only 3rd party plugins installed from repositories get deleted when they're disabled.

I should have mentioned that the prudent way of doing this would be to move the individual plugin directories somewhere else, not actually delete them. Move them somewhere outside of the directories that are loaded into the RAMdisk, just in case you find that you need one in the future.

Ok that explains it all third party stuff deletes itself .

Reinstalling the same version would that restore the default plugins ?

Ram disc cool

[bpa]

There are commanfd line options which are mainly aimed at Touch but with should also help with a minimal RAMdisk installation.

Options such as

--noweb => Disable web interface. JSON-RPC, Comet, and artwork web APIs are still enabled.
--nosb1slimp3sync=> Disable support for SliMP3s, SB1s and associated synchronization
--nostatistics => Disable the TracksPersistent table used to keep to statistics across rescans (compiled out).
--notranscoding => Disable transcoding support.
--noimage => Disable scanning for images.
--novideo => Disable scanning for videos.
--noupnp => Disable UPnP subsystem

[Mnyb]

There are commanfd line options which are mainly aimed at Touch but with should also help with a minimal RAMdisk installation.

Options such as

--noweb => Disable web interface. JSON-RPC, Comet, and artwork web APIs are still enabled.
--nosb1slimp3sync=> Disable support for SliMP3s, SB1s and associated synchronization
--nostatistics => Disable the TracksPersistent table used to keep to statistics across rescans (compiled out).
--notranscoding => Disable transcoding support.
--noimage => Disable scanning for images.
--novideo => Disable scanning for videos.
--noupnp => Disable UPnP subsystem

You still gain something from --noupnp even if you disabled the dlna plugin ?

Ok added that one to my args

[herbman]

There are commanfd line options which are mainly aimed at Touch but with should also help with a minimal RAMdisk installation.

Options such as

--noweb => Disable web interface. JSON-RPC, Comet, and artwork web APIs are still enabled.
--nosb1slimp3sync=> Disable support for SliMP3s, SB1s and associated synchronization
--nostatistics => Disable the TracksPersistent table used to keep to statistics across rescans (compiled out).
--notranscoding => Disable transcoding support.
--noimage => Disable scanning for images.
--novideo => Disable scanning for videos.
--noupnp => Disable UPnP subsystem

Responding to an old thread, sorry.

Does --noimage effectively disable artwork, either on-disk or from itunes? I would like to have no artwork as I only use a slimp3 and all the art-related stuff seems to add server/DB/cache weight.

Marc