chzhzhang, Your post #20 indicates that John's changes don't produce extra information about what's going wrong: the log just states that there is an out of memory error during artwork scan. My experiment with John's changes has the same result. I did put the tracks with large artwork back, implemented John's changes and did a new scan: like chzhzhang I did not get any extra information, just the same out of memory error I did get without the changes.
As I wrote in an earlier post, what worked for me to catch the problem was the suggestion made by Jim Zolx: sorting all tracks in MP3Tag on %coversize% so you can see which tracks have crazy large embedded art an change those tracks. After I did that that, all works now reliably for me, without any hiccup. So I can only recommend to attach the USB drive to a PC (on the Touch over a network will be too slow) and find the embedded art that is too large. (It turned out that the files that caused my problem did not have an image of about 300 KB: the embedded image was more than 2 MB! I guess embedded art up to about 400-500Kb will not be a problem, but the largest I have now is about 300 Kb.) Jim suggested that deleting the embedded artwork would speed up the track scanning and artwork scanning process and make a smaller artwork db. So I tested this by deleting all embedded artwork from the tracks and removing the old databases. To my surprise the scanning of new files took exactly as long and the artwork scanning took double the time (33 minutes instead of 16)! Also the resulting database has approximately the same size. So there is no need to delete embedded artwork as long as this artwork is not too large. I'm a happy camper now: to prepare an USB drive for use with the Touch I just let my Vortexbox main server make a USB copy overnight, append it to the Touch and let it scan: exactly as I had imagined it before I bought the Touch. Alas, there's always something left. In my case the restriction of playlists to 100 entries. When I first saw this restriction I thought 'So what?'. I hadn't realized that playing an album always means creating a playlist from it. And my albums like 'Beethoven: Piano Sonatas (artist)' contain more than 100 tracks. To be able to play them, I'll have to split these albums in Part 1 and Part 2 (and I have a lot of classical 'albums' like this). Of course it would be fabulous if the playlist restriction could be made 150 or even 200. Teus -- Teus de Jong ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Teus de Jong's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15415 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79943 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
