Thanks for releasing this, Michael. Im seeing artist picture scan as 40 times as fast as the previous version and 4x as fast as the patch I wrote :)mherger wrote: > I released v1.7.0: > > > > > - Look up genre information for albums imported from online music > services - improve artist picture lookups to speed up the import process and > optimize cache usage > > > > > The genre lookup is particularly interesting if you're importing > Spotify or TIDAL libraries, as these services don't provide any genre > information. MAI can now (optionally) look up genre information on > AllMusic.com and automatically tag those imported tracks with that > information. > > The second improvement around artist pictures is particularly > important if you often run full wipe & rescans: in this case the > artist ID would change with every scan. And previously I used the > artist ID to store artwork. As that key would change, the image proxy > cache would increase in size with every scan, as all the images would > repeatedly be cached. With this new version the cache key shouldn't > change any more. Which means that the import should be much faster, as > the images most likely are already in the cache, and it will take less > disk space. Please note that it will take several weeks before the > old, stale entries expire and eventually get wiped. If you want to > take immediate advantage of the space saving you'll have to shut down > LMS, delete imgproxy.db from LMS' cache folder and re-run a full wipe > & rescan. > > Have fun!
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