Marc Sherman;165871 Wrote: > 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. > > - Marc
I would like to state here again my gratitude for all of you, dealing with my problems! I will give it a try, setting the virus scan accordingly. However, I bought a Intel Dual Core Core 2,4GHz 1GB RAM ASUS P5B in the meantime ;-) I hope, this is sufficient, if the virus scanner is NOT the reason for slowdown... -- 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 [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
