JoelShepp;165160 Wrote: 
> Go multi-threaded.  I see only one thread running for scanner.exe
Only multi processor/core would benefit from that. Ok, I know they are
getting very popular now. The scanner runs in a seperate process to not
interfere with the server process (causing dropouts and sluggish remote
response). If you just spawn off a number of threads this idea will be
compromised again especially on slower (one processor) systems. On
those systems the overall performace could even be worse considering
the resource overhead needed to synchronize the threads.

JoelShepp;165160 Wrote: 
> Rescanning new music - Can you possibly create a delta in the DB and
> then spawn a couple of theads to look for changes by... date maybe ...
> comparing that to the delta... then only going to a deeper scan of a
> dir or dirs if the modified date/create date is changed or new based on
> the delta...I have never ever used this. I do a full rescan once in a while 
> and use
Browse Music Folder to add new music.

Allow users to point to a new folder/files using a more manual method
of updating their libraries.   That would also aid in performance, as a
new CD would not force one to rescan their entire library.

Allow importing of a text file (say comma seperated) to import new
files.Michael already pointed you in the right direction. Isn't it easier to
browse a directory structure than to create and import a custom text
file? ;-)

-s.


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