Pale Blue Ego;165790 Wrote: > It shouldn't take 5 hours to scan your music, unless you have a huge > library, like 50,000 tracks or more - or, unless you're running > slimserver on very underpowered hardware. Also in some cases, the scan > process can get in a loop due to broken shortcut links. You can log > errors during the scan process by checking the "d_scan" setting in the > slimserver web interface (Home / Server Settings / Debugging) > > As far as why the scan process has to happen, it's because slimserver > is building a database. It pulls information out of each file and > holds it in large tables that are easy to search. Slimserver can't > give instant access to your collection until it knows what's IN your > collection. > > There's an easy way to add new music to slimserver without having to do > a complete rescan. Use "Browse Music Folder", either from the remote > control or the web interface. You just navigate to the folder where > the newly added music is, and slimserver will add those tracks to the > database. You can also play the new tracks now. > > Hang in there and we'll help you get straightened out. Slimserver does > have its quirks, but it is generally solid and quite flexible once you > get used to it. Tell us about your server hardware, server operating > system, size of your music collection, which version of Slimserver are > you using, stuff like that.
thank you for your reply! please find the requested details here: * MS Win XP Prof SP2 * Celeron 900MHz (admittedly not exactly a rocket to the moon) * Mainboard Intel S815EBM1 * SATA Seagate Barracuda 320GB (latest model) * onboard graphics * 512MB RAM * Promise TX2300 RAID1 * NO iTunes!!! * NO personal firewall * Avira Antivir Personal Edition * 1401 albums/18032 songs/750 artist (I would call it "midsized", at best ;-) * NO wLAN, all 100MBit wired ethernet * realVNC remote access * D-Link DI-604 wired broadband router, 5MBit/512kBit cable internet coming soon: * Slim Transporter * B&W 802D Speaker * Arcam FMJ C31 pre amp * Arcam FMJ P1 amp -- Lost Viking ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lost Viking's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9290 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31095 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
