>Can you clarify if the slower scan from the database is better in some >reason than the faster mix scan? I'm assuming it must have some benefit, >otherwise not just use the faster scan all the time?
No the full MusicIP scan mode is worse - in my opinion it should be dropped, there's no need for it. The full mode effectively takes all song information from the MusicIP library, and copies it into the Squeezebox Server DB. MusicIP doesn't scan in song info as good as the Squeezebox Server scanner. There are several reasons why I think this worse: 1. MusicIP doesn't support as many file types. 2. MusicIP doesn't support multiple tags. eg. Multiple genres, multiple artists. 3. MusicIP does some weird stuff with missing tags. eg. a song with no album tag in Squeezebox Server appears under "No Album", whereas MusicIP reports the song as belonging to album "Miscellaneous". 4. Not sure whether you would get artwork throught MusicIP import. If you use the Squeezebox ServerScanner and full MusicIP import, then it may effectively be reading and storing tracks twice (takes twice as long). You are better off scanning music with the Squeezebox Server, and then only reading mixable status for the songs that have been scanned. Once the mixable status has been retrieved from MusicIP, the Squeezebox Server doesn't need to try again in the future (if you do a scan for new/changed files, it only tries to get mixable status for the songs that are not yet known to be mixable). _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
