Michaelwagner Wrote: 
> http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2808
I don't think it's so much that BMF isn't using a cache that makes it
so slow - what it has to do is many many lookups in the db at each
junction in the tree.  If these database interactions are as slow and
unoptimized as I understand the scanning lookups to be, then it's no
wonder BMF is so slow.

Actually, I think Dan said that something like this may be forthcoming
in v6.5.  I suggested that you be able to browse through the music
folder without BMF actively looking for new and changed files.  At each
branch in the tree you can display a button that would let you
explicitly catalog that folder and any subfolders.  This would kill two
birds - you'd have a nice, quick means of browsing the directory
structure _and_ you'd also have a nice user interface for cataloging
newly added music.

I've been harping about this forever.  At some point I'd really like a
BMF does a simple directory browse, showing every single file in the
folders - not what SlimServer thinks is in those folders and that it
thinks is worthy of being cataloged in the database.  Say you had 10
scans of artwork for an album - there's no way in SlimServer to view
those scans.  Display all image files in BMF, not just the single
'cover' and let a user click on the file names to view them.  If you
come across a playlist, allow the user to click the playlist to play
the referenced files.  It's one of those things that's conceptually so
damned simple that I don't understand why it wasn't done a long time
ago.


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