On Aug 7, 2011, at 2:53 AM, JJZolx wrote:

> 
> If all of the covers from a music library have been resized and cached,
> if you were to then run a clear & rescan with 'Artwork Pre-caching'
> disabled, will those old cached images still be used, or are they no
> longer associated with what's in the database?

The cache key is based on the file path + size + mtime, so previously cached 
images will work. Although, a wipe scan will completely rebuild the artwork 
cache.

> Along the same lines, if I'm running two instances of the server
> pointing at the same music library, could the ArtworkCache.db from one
> be copied to the other?

Yeah, should work.

> The reason for the questions is that I want to compare a MySQL
> installation of 7.6.1 with one using SQLite, but I'm unable to get the
> MySQL based server to precache the artwork. A clear & rescan hangs up
> during precaching and a new & changed scan sees nothing new and doesn't
> go through the precaching pass (although this used to work until
> recently).

Hmm not sure what would have broken here, but nobody tests MySQL anymore so 
this stuff is bound to happen.
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