You know you can browse music folders, right? When you browse the new
album you can play it immediately.
Do you have a large music collection and/or slow CPU?
I'm just curious.
My scan takes 00:03:25 (41k tracks), my SC is running on a AMD4400+ X2
with 2GB RAM.
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Uluen
on the remote or web gui, use Browse Music Folders to navigate to the
folder with the album you want to play...it will be added to the
database if it is not already there.
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Phil Leigh
You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it
ain't what you'd call
the database is where SC puts all the info about all your tracks.
yours is slower probably b/c u are a g5 mac, and using a usb ext drive.
i might have the same ext drive as you btw, mine is a 500gig porsche
type of one.
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MrSinatra
www.LION-Radio.org
Using:
Squeezebox2 (primary) / SBR
Big caveat here - I don't use Itunes. However, if you are happy to let
Itunes manage your music, you may be able to speed up performance by
only relying on Itunes integration.
If you enable use Itunes but don't put in an entry for Music Folder
in Squeezecenter, then all Squeezecenter will use to
Well, I run a collection of approx 10,000 tracks on an XP box with 1gb
ram and a rescan (including MIP integration) takes 18 mins. However, I
run Squeezecenter on a dedicated, headless box with no other significant
processes. Also, my music is stored on the same physical drive as
Squeezecenter,
