mherger wrote: > > LMS (7.9) has a habit of rescanning items if it sees they have > changed. > > This behaviour should not have changed in 7.9 compared to 7.8. How is > this being triggered? Does it discover those changes automatically (then > > disable auto scan)? Or when you BMF to a changed file? > BMF - Acronym hell? Anyway, it's when a file has changed (eg had a rating set or a change of artwork) but I haven't requested a rescan yet. > > > > This causes it to sulk for a while before it's ready to use again. I > > thought there used to be a way of stopping it from rescanning, but I > > can't find it now. > > Settings/Advanced/Performance? There might be an option to > enable/disable auto rescan. > There doesn't seem to be. There is an option to rsecan if preferences change but I assume that's a different issue. > > > > The problem this causes is, on my system, much worse. I have > configured > > Custom Scan to kick in and rescan after LMS has done a rescan. If I > > don't have this option set I forget to do a custom scan when I really > > have added new stuff. Custom Scan takes hours to rescan which is not > > what I want to happen when just playing music since the system is > > unusable. > > What might have changed in 7.9 is a bug in older versions which did not > > correctly update the last changed flag. This was causing issues with eg. > > apps using a local cache. They wouldn't update they're caches after > certain changes. Now if this is triggering CustomScan, then it's more of > > a side-effect to a bug fixed. But it should not be a new bug. Just > something to be aware of as the developer of CustomScan (I've seen > similar complaints wrt. to my SmartMix plugin). But to be sure let's do > > above checks for auto rescan and try to understand when this is being > triggered on your system. > I'm not sure what else I can check. > > > > Further, I have sometimes switched off my system not fully realising > it > > was still doing a Custom Scan. The system then wakes up and does a > full > > scan in the middle of the night, which is fine. However, what > happens > > then is that Multi-Library seems to have reset the value for the > > Standard Library (from 1 to 6 or 7) which means my non-Classical > stuff > > cannot be found. I have to go into the database and change the value > > back to 1, and then all is well. > > That sounds like something you should report to Erland. > I'm hoping he may get time to look at the forum occasionally, but I know he has other big fish to fry :)
LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16->24 bit, 44.1->192kbps. LMS & Squeeze2upnp (Beta - derived from squeezelite) to Musical Fidelity M1 CLiC and Marantz CR603 UPnP renderers. Squeezelite to PC sound. Minimserver (server) and upplay (control point) to same amps & to upmpdcli/mpd PC renderers. Meridian USB Explorer DAC from PCs to speakers/headphones. Wireless Xubuntu 14.04 laptop controls LMS/upplay via Firefox. Have a Touch with EDO, and a spare, but don't use. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102712 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
