--- radish
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What I don't understand is why the scan time is
> seemingly exponential.
> I can do a full wipe and rescan of about 10,000
> tracks in under 15
> minutes (more like 10), so why does 7x the tracks
> take 96x as long to
> scan?
Radish... diff OS?? Is Linux the answer to those with
large libraries? Haven't had the time nor the courage
to make the leap to Linux, but if I can get a
wipe-scan time of an hour or two as opposed to almost
2 days, then Im all for it. The dual-processor box I
have is a dedicated SlimServer, so I dont mind at all
trashing the thing to make my SB experience a bit
slicker, but I have yet to figger out how to
accomplish this with a large library (absolutely no
playlists involved in the library, no FLACs; just
MP3s). So, to the original poster, I wouldn't throw a
mondo-amount of hardware at this project. It's only my
opinion and from my experience, there hasn't been any
gain in efficiency, especially if you have a "large"
library. Just grin & bear it. The rescans are fine.
So again, maybe we can narrow this down a bit -- what
are people with large libraries getting for scan times
and what OS are they using?? Maybe its the demonic
windows that bogs the deal down??
-- Dondi
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