>I'm not sure there's anything wrong with that, but it does need to be >disabled if auto-scanning is disabled. And I believe it does currently >work this way. > Ah, okay that would make sense. If Autoscan was disabled, no initial scan at startup.
There are times when I am adding music, editing tags, etc, when I don't want the library to be scanned. >But there's also the -initial- startup scan that happens when the >server is started and it finds no library database. I think this is >what Phil is referring to. Yes it was. >You don't really want it running until you've set the location of the music >library. And anything else that affects a scan. eg. disabled iTunes integration, set MusicIP to get mixable status only, set music library settings, etc. >One problem is that >running from an SVN checkout doesn't duplicate the user experience very >well, as the installer always first asks for the music library location >before starting the server for the first time. > Ah, I didn't know that happens - I've never run the installer. >Not sure how iTunes and >MusicIP integration work, as I don't use either, but it sounds as if >they're both enabled and could be causing some problems. > The problems were: 1. Initial scan without reporting it was scanning. 2. It did an iTunes import and MusicIP import, which I didn't want. 3. This took ages (longer than a scan in 7.5 for me). 4. Scan completed after about an hour, but I couldn't see anything. Disk activity suggested that another scan was going on, but couldn't tell for sure (nothing in log either). I was aware that it would probably do an initial scan, but my "My Music" folder is empty, so was expecting a quick scan with no content. However, half my library is in iTunes and all my library is is MusicIP, so it scanned both of those, which took a lot of time, and then seemed to do some kind of artwork import from iTunes, which seemed to take a long time too. >With regard to the two types of startup scan mentioned above, my >understanding is that the initial 'no library' scan is via the external >scanner and the 'startup' scan is in-process. Is it possible that both >are being launched on the first startup? I mainly use iTunes for Podcasts. Does iTunes import pick up podcasts? I probably updated podcasts whilst it was scanning, and therefore the iTunes library would have been updated, and SBS auto rescan would have started another scan (checking everything in the iTunes library to work out what had changed?). _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
