DJanGo wrote: > Hi i dont want to go into the deeeeeeeep but a few lines should be > enough. > > If you drop a table or database and create a new one there is no "trash" > or "old" data that belongs to the trash (means no "fragmentation") > > If you change some (may in your library) and do a rescan, there are some > old datas, thats now trash or "fragmentation". > if you dont change nothing where should the "trash" / Old Data come > from? > > This is not a black hokuspokus, its pure logic. > > If you dont believe - check the source from both plugins and "check" > what it does. I'm not suggesting hocus pocus, just puzzled.
As I understand it custom scan deletes entries and recreates them, even though the data has not changed. In the process fragmentation occurs, even though the content is the same. Deleting and inserting does not necessarily re-use the same blocks. Vacuuming persist.db brought the size down from around 440MB to 411MB, even though no music tags have changed, and database tweak hard reported only around 3% 'waste'. LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi running Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16->24 bit, 44.1->192kbps. Wired Touch + EDO, coax to Musical Fidelity M1 CLiC. Wireless Xubuntu 14.04 laptop controls LMS via Chromium. Meridian Explorer USB DAC to listen via Squeezelite on Vortexbox & other PCs as required. Spare Touch in loft. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101469 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
