Hi all, I found it tough digging through the multitude of threads about the sudden disappearance of thumbnails after an upgrade to 6.5.1 and subsequent rescan.
I run use iTunes as my mail source for library management so all this talk of 'cover.jpg' etc quickly started to confound me. My music directories have no such files in them. All the artwork lives IN THE MP3 files themselves! Also, all I know was, it worked like a charm until I went to 6.5.1 and then all my thumbnails were replaced by the slimserver question mark with grey background placeholder. I tried deleting the cache in artwork, multiple restarts and wipe and rescans through the interface, standing on my head, prayers, conversions to other religions and more prayer and in the end all I got was frustration and possibly an angry dviine being or two. Because I have a library that is nothing short of massive rescanning is time consuming (30-45 minutes), CPU draining and in general not something i wanted to mess with while experimenting time after time. After much digging I finally found a thread with a command line that most can understand and it worked. So for us laymen, (USING XP, SlimServer 6.5.1 iTunes ONLY), here's what I did, step-by-step, without a bunch of techie mumbo jumbo, to solve the problem. 1. Disable automated scanning in slim server. You can do this by accessing the SlimServer throught the browser and then: a) Clicking on Server Settings b) Selecting iTunes from the options list at the top c) Setting first field (iTunes Reload Interval) to 0 (zero) d) Click the Change Button next to the field. 2. Now before you proceed be sure no scan is already running. Just wait however long it normally takes to do a scan or if you know how to, look at the XP task list to make sure that scanner.exe isn't running. 3. Open an XP DOS window. (Start > Run...) 4. Enter the following on ONE LINE (this may appear wrapped): "c:\program files\slimserver\server\scanner.exe" --d_import --d_scan --d_info --d_itunes --wipe --progress --itunes Now leave it to run. It will spew out tons of info and could take anything froma few minutes to an hour I guess, depending on how big your library is. That's it! It worked for me. I hope this works for you and saves you. Another related Tip: I never liked the iTunes Reload Frequency setting thingy. I would rather set it to trigger at certain times rather than certain intervals. Because I have a massive collection, it's just not practical. So instead, I've created a batch file with this command and have the NT Task Scheduler running it at 4:00 in the morning every day (or even ever hour if I really want to). If I am desperate to hear a new addition to my iTunes library immediately, I can still go into the browser and trigger a scan from there for more immediate results. Hope this helps save someone some frustration! Mark Make sure you preserve the quotes you see above. -- skieswideopen Cheers, Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------ skieswideopen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6539 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32672 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
