Nothing like answering your own question, but here goes. 1. Slimserver grinding.
I should have realised that I had done something different. Although I had not added any new music I had made a new playlist (all the music the significant other likes). Turning on d_scan and running tail -f /var/log/slimserver/slimserver.log while triggering a clear & rescan, it became clear that the poor performance all occurred when scanning the playlist, not the music collection itself. Now the playlist was pretty long (around 5000 tracks) and to make matters worse, I had set my music directory to /home/music and playlist directory to /home/music/playlists which meant that the playlist was actually scanned twice (aside: do I correctly deduce from this that it is better not to have your playlists directory a sub-directory of your music root). Temporarily removing the offending playlist massively improved performance. 2. Disappearing Artwork (I) Removing the playlist also restored some of my artwork. I had tidied up a few of the tags and filenames (e.g. adjusting capitalisation, trimming double spaces) and had replaced a few mp3s with oggs. The problem was I had done this *after* I'd created the mega playlist, so the playlist referred to files that no longer existed. Somehow this threw the artwork scanning out for the affected albums. 3. Disappearing Artwork (II) By this point my performance had improved and I had most of the missing artwork back, but a few were still missing. For the remaining missing images, it looks as though the bug http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3245 has reappeared since all of the missing artwork sits in directories which included accented characters. Since these images were working fines a few days ago and I haven't modified those files/directories, I'd guess that the bug has returned. Regards, Sean. -- smc2911 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ smc2911's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4388 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23304 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
