Lost Viking wrote:
* 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
If all your music is on that local seagate drive (though you say it's RAID 1, so presumably you have 2 of them?) then there's no reason scanning 18000 files should take 5 hours, even on a 900MHz celeron.
You didn't mention MusicMagic/MusicIP. That can slow down scans in the same way as iTunes. If you're running it, try disabling it and rescanning.
My only other guess would be your antivirus, which I've never heard of. It could be scanning every MP3 that slimserver opens during the library scan. That would certainly slow things down. Try disabling it and see if a library scan goes faster. If it does, then try re-enabling it and explicitly excluding all music file extensions (mp3, flac, ogg, aac, wav, m3u, and whatever else you have in your collection) and see if that helps.
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