You have to remember that there are two types of scans, the initial full scan and then the "quick scan" which is invoked every boot after that.
The first time you plug in a drive with a bunch of music it will not have a database on the stick, so it will do a full scan of all the files, it reads all the music files looking for tags and processes all the cover art. This can take a long time, anywhere from 1/2 hour to several hours. >From there on when the Touch boots it does a quick scan of the files, at this point it's just looking up the file name in the database and seeing if the date matches. This can take 30 seconds to a couple minutes at most. IF it finds files that are either not in the database or which have a newer date than what is in the database, then it will do a full scan on these files only. If you leave the Touch on all the time and leave the USB stick permanently connected then it will never have to do the quick scan and you can instantly get to any of your music. That initial full scan can be a problem for some people. For some reason some people's files seem to cause problems with the scanner (frequently related to cover art) which causes the scanner to crash so it never finishes the initial scan, which means it's always taking a long time to start up after a boot because it's always running the initial scan. Interestingly the same files scan just file when the server is on a real computer. Some people will try and play music while the initial scan is in progress, this is a recipe for disaster, this radically increases the probability that the initial scan will crash. John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96141 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
