Any chance this can be fixed? (My bet from seeing peoples iTunes import speed is that it is doing something similar...)
Again, the problem is that a scan with MusicIP enabled does the following: 1) Look at Music Folder path, reading tags and loading all the files from the path. 2) Grab Playlists (I don't use these so they may be problematic too) 3) Request list of files from MusicIP... a) for each file in MusicIP, open the file and read the tags... b) merge with tags MusicIP provides 4) Scan for artwork The problem is at 3a: if the Music Folder has already been read, why reread the tags -- we already did that and they are in the database. Yes, a "solution" is to clear out the Music Folder config, but then I could no longer BMF, which I use often, and the files that MusicIP excludes would no longer be playable (it excludes spoken word genres, and files that are either very short or very long). It seems to me that a big optimization could go on by eliminating 3a in the case of MusicIP and most likely in Playlist and iTunes scanning. And, again, Yes, I know that I can clear the Music Folder path... and import solely from MusicIP: except that will break BMF and make it so that only tracks in the MusicIP database are playable. And if the import iTunes function works the same way, this is a huge performance problem -- doubling the import time for no real reason. For a "find updated files" it is even worse: a few minutes to see nothing changed on the file system... and 30 minutes to import from MusicIP to see nothing changed.... -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30569 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
