I've been running 7.6.x for as many months as it's been a beta. I've no idea what development work is still going into it, but there remain serious issues with the scanner logic where rescanning is concerned. I have a large library and in general terms when adding a few albums or making a small number of changes to existing albums the rescan works well. After seeing the recent thread regarding Various Artists I decided to revisit tagging of all my compilation albums and as a result moved them all to a sub folder called VA/ in the library's directory tree. This made dealing with all compilation albums pretty simple in that I could point a tag editor to a single folder.
When I was done I launched an update scan - this resulted in around 19,000 tracks no longer being present where they were previously housed (and would therefore be deleted from the DB), and of course the same number of "new" tracks with revised tags being found in the VA/ location. Now, to my mind deleting records from a database should be a pretty quick exercise, yet the rescan routine goes into the deleting of records and stays there for over an hour before moving on to doing the rest of its business, and after a few hours we're still nowhere. Surely it cannot take hours to make these changes? Clearly therefore there's likely some error in the recanning logic? If deleting 19000 records out of say 180,000 records is inefficient, wouldn't it be better to copy the non-deleted records to a new DB file, close and delete the old file and rename and open the new file and then continue scanning for new files from there? I know its a beta, but I'm really sick and tired of having to resort to stopping SBS, deleting the database files and then rescanniong from scratch to have SBS workiing again after signifiant changes. Yep, I know it's a beta and there will be problems, but I've raised this many times before and it doesn't seem any progress has been made. Is the plan to migrate these issues to customer's "production" systems? -- audiomuze *'Linux finally gets a great audio tagger' (http://www.ubuntugeek.com/linux-finally-gets-a-great-audio-tagger.html): 'puddletag' (http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/)* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ audiomuze's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33613 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88639 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
