On Wednesday 03 March 2010 13:27:45 Alex Schuster wrote: > > On Monday 01 March 2010 18:08:05 Alex Schuster wrote: > > > On the other hand, from time to time I have show-stoppers, and then I > > > cannot use kmail, or no KDE4 at all. And have to invest time to solve > > > this. And there are these annoying things. Like Amarok being very > > > unstable, and taking 5 minutes to start. What the heck is it doing in > > > this time? > > > > > > > > Fuck knows what amarok-2x does for the first 5 minutes. I think On my > > system it scans the music directory, presumably to find updates that > > happened when amarok was not running. Fair enough, can't argue that, > > but why is it so *slow*??? > > Yes, it scans the collection, I just verified that by removing a folder > from my collection. Start-up takes 7 minutes, I guess this also slows down > my KDE4 start-up even further (strigi also scans some stuff for about a > minute, along this music files I did not touch in any way). So when I save > my KDE session I have to remember to quit amarok before that. Of course, I > also have to remember to start amarok some time after I logged in, so I > can play music when I want without having to wait 7 minutes first. > > This does not feel right... > > BTW, a find /data/mp3 -type d takes about a minute. Checking the date of > the directories to verify they did not alter since the last scan should > not take that much longer. > > Ah, I see the problem. It mainly scans /data/mp3/incoming, a directory I > have NOT selected as collection folder (but most other directories in > /data/mp3 are selected). Still, those files do not show up in my > collection, which is fine - some time ago amarok did index all in > /data/mp3, even if a directory was not selected.
I wonder if amarok would not be better off using the strigi/nepomuk indexing function, instead of trying to be real clever and doing it itself. OTOH, that might just resurrect the mother of all threads we had recently - the one about the pros and cons of nepomuk and semantic-desktop :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
