jackmanfred Wrote: > > I would like to know if there is any point in using the rescan button > as it seems to take ages to complete, like a week! Is this normal? and > you seem to get the same view if you use the browse music folder. Using browse music folder to pick up new music should work. There are some differences from doing a full rescan that you might want to be aware of. Such as not picking up artwork. See:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2116 It's probably the fastest way for you to get SlimServer to pick up newly added albums. Just navigate down to the album folder and SlimServer will add all the tracks in the folder to its database. As long as you don't regularly add dozens of albums at a time, it beats waiting a week for a rescan. Another limitation is that SlimServer may not (or is it definitely will not?) pick up changes that you've made to files which have already been cataloged. For instance, if you were to change tags in a file, such as changing the artist or album name. I've always thought it would be good to have the ability to rescan just a portion of the music folder tree. You might consider the advantages to running a dedicated machine for SlimServer. I suppose the Linkstation is attractive in that it's low powered and probably quiet, but if my SlimServer took a week to rescan my music collection, I'd dump it. I can't imagine browsing is any too quick on a device like that either. -- JJZolx Jim _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
