On 15-Aug-06, at 8:27 AM, Patrick Dixon wrote:
dwc Wrote:
I think DaveP is on to it. If you "simply moved" your music library
including playlists, you may have in effect just broken your
playlists.
I'm sure that's the answer, however I also think it's legitimate to ask
why the scanning process doesn't recover gracefully from such an error.
I propose we call it the Music-handling API for Gracefully Ignoring
Crap. MAGIC for short.
On seeing playlists with files that don't exist, it will instantly
determine whether the users desire is to index everything and skip
missing files so that the user doesn't have to keep fixing playlists,
or whether the user has simply moved a bunch of files and wants the
playlist scan to save time and just stop checking the files at all.
(kidding, of course)
For now , no one can know what the problem actually is. It is not a
normal condition, but with refusal to have anything to do with logs and
debugging, the only options are to hope the user will ship the computer
to tech support for examination, or get over it and try the debugging
switches suggested. Otherwise, it is only speculation (which is,
arguably, more fun for the forum). It could just as easily not be
playlists; there are often cases where a user doesn't mention something
initially that turns out to be critical information. Again, without
logs, there is no next step.
Answer to the question: missing files shouldn't take that long to
determine as missing, but there could be any number of playlists with
any number of tracks. The scan could be made to quickly dump any
playlist that starts showing more than a few files pointing outside the
music folder, but the users who insist in being able to link to files
outside the music folder for use with their favourite other music
managing software end up losing out. The scan is only as good as the
data it finds. Period. If there really is a problem, then the logs
will show it and it will be fixed or at least there will be
instructions on what needs to be corrected in the data. In the absence
of logs, then it's just a rant. Fine too, but there are then less
resources to help change the conditions that caused the need to rant.
-kdf
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