On Feb 12, 2008, at 4:36 PM, Phil Meyer wrote:

>> Maybe generating four thumbnails for every artwork image wasn't  
>> such a
>> good idea?  What happens when somebody is embedding images in audio
>> files for every track instead of using a cover/folder.jpg?  Does it
>> generate four thumbnails for every track?  Yikes.
>>
> I have started to embed images in each song, for songs extracted  
> from CD singles (don't normally bother for albums).  However, that  
> could still be a significant number of songs to be generating cached  
> copies of.  I'm not sure I'm fond of the pre-caching on scan change  
> either, if it's going to adversely affect scan time (haven't done a  
> rescan for some time - I guess it's only a problem for rescanning -  
> it doesn't check all cached artwork on a "scan for new and changed  
> files"?)
>
> There's also the cache size and number of files to consider.  I  
> recently did a full virus scan (not through choice - a new firewall  
> insisted on doing it), and there wasn't an option to ignore the  
> squeezecenter cache folder.  It took ages (several hours), because  
> of the sheer number of artwork files in the cache.
>
> Is there any cache management to recycle the oldest images, to keep  
> the size/number of cached files down?

You can't have it both ways... if you want fast browsing of artwork on  
Jive and via the web, the images need to be cached.
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