DigitalMitch;539350 Wrote: > maybe off-topic (non-working playlists) but:- > > I noticed that even after a 'good' scan, every time I remounted the > USB-HD, it always found 1670 new files. This was strangely close to the > number of albums (1614). > > I then remembered that when EAC rips each disc it creates an m3u > playlist in each directory (back on fullfatSBS this had doubled-up my > music until I pointed the playlist folder elsewhere). Searching the > USB-HD i found excatly 1670 m3u playlists, so I deleted 18 and then > remounted, only 1652 'new' files. > > I'll go ahead and delete the balance (a playlist = album is pretty > useless anyway and see if I can turn off in EAC). They don't show under > playlists on tinySC anyway. > > My question is what impact do these 'spurious' files have? tinySC is > clearly identifying them as music, so must aim to do something but then > doesn't recognise that they have been scanned at the next remount.
Its probably not actually causing any harm, most likely the scanner is trying to read them and has a problem with them (syntax error, file not where it says it etc) and just skips it and goes on to the next which is why its not in the DB. All thats probably really happening is that its wasting a few extra seconds when you plug in the drive. Unless those files contain usefull information you want to keep, you can probably ignore them. To see whats actually happening you can increase the logging level for the scanner and look in the log file. Under Settings>Advanced>Logging is a list parts of the system you can get log info from, somewhere in there will be SqueezeboxServer and SqueezeboxServer Scanner. I think by default they are set to info which logs things like "start scanner" or "scanner complete". You have several options: info, error, warning and debug. Info gives general information such as starting and stopping. Error adds errors, warning adds warnings and debug puts out a lot of detailed info about whats happening. DON'T use debug with a large library, you can fill up the filesystem!! You can try error or warning and see if that helps finding out what happens. The log file is /var/log/messages. You can read this if you ssh into the Touch. In addition its shared over the network so you SHOULD be able to see it from another computer. John S. -- JohnSwenson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77798 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
