pippin wrote: > You can't see that in scanner.log, automatic, incremental scans while > browsing folders go into server.log, not scanner.log. You can only see > it in the web interface in "Settings->Information". > > iPeng caches Artwork, Albums, Albums sorted by Artist, Artists, Genres > and Playlists. It doesn't cache folders. > > But there's something else here: your daily "clear & rescan". Is it > after that that iPeng doesn't work anymore? > Did you try the "fresh start from root folder" thing? > The reason I'm asking is that after a "clear & rescan", your whole > folder structure is invalid and yes, you can not play it then, it's no > longer there, you have to start getting a new folder structure from the > beginning. iPeng might not check for that when it sees that you have > rescanned the library, it might be difficult to do so, too, because each > browse action in the folder structure is a potential rescan. > > What confuses me is that you say you can still browse up and down. Up > should still work (going up just closes a lower level menu) but you > should no longer be able to open another folder, that's weird. Maybe the > server still somehow keeps a copy of the old folder around? > > Generally, doing a clear & rescan too often is not a good idea. The > server keeps a lot of internal caches, especially artwork thumbnails, > which will have to be re-created every day this way. This will slow down > your overall operation considerably. > And actually I especially don't understand it since you don't use the > tags anyway, don't you? When browsing by folder structure, the server > always rescans each folder anyway, so no need for a rescan, let alone a > clear&rescan.
How do I start "fresh from the root folder" on iPeng? If I select "Music Folder" it just re-displays what was displayed before. I don't understand what you mean about the folder structure not being there. These are just files and directories on disc, they're always there. I can definitely browse folders up and down, I do this until iPeng crashes. I could do with a button that lets me quit iPeng, that would be a lot quicker. I use tags sometimes. Half my music is my CDs ripped which are all properly tagged. The other half is downloads of bootleg concerts, these are rarely tagged and if they are they're usually wrong. I have the daily rescan because I got sick to death of forgetting to scan after ripping a CD or downloading something. It's a pain needing to remember. My "Downloads" share is where torrents are moved to after they complete, so if the torrent completes I just have to wait until the next 6AM and there it is all scanned. As for the various caches, I wish they weren't there as they cause no end of trouble and often have to be flushed or manually deleted. I don't know why LMS bothers with them. I did not know that browsing by folder doesn't need a server scan. I thought it needed a scan to pick up the artwork. It certainly does if I change any of the artwork, it won't forget the old artwork until the next scan (damned caches again). My LMS is running on a 1.6GHz Intel Atom Windows Home Server V1 box with 2GB RAM. Performance is not a problem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Owen Smith's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42371 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
