It's like this , artist ,album,genre et all uses the database that you get by scanning your files . It is therefore faster , the software nows everything it needs to know about the file ( including where it is ).
" Music Folder " is working just like when you browse folder via the explorer in windows for example . This is slow on slow hardware ,if you run the server on a modern pc you would not notice on a NAS or on the Touch itself with limited CPU it gets slow . This mode is a fallback solution for badly tagged or untagged content , so the files are just presented in their folder in the OS sort order ,but the software actually checks if the file migth not be in database anyway if not it gets scanned on the spot ,this check is done on each folder level. Why is that, the meta data ( tags ) is not only scanned and used to power the search function and set up the artist ,album etc structure , it is also used for presentation on the screen ,you are seeing the title not the file name and also cover art if it exists. What to do , improve tagging and general organisation of the files is the best way in the long run . Other things you can do is have a reasonable folder structure, if you remember an old windows computer with slower CPU if one opened a folder with thousands of files/folders in the same folder it could take time to open the folder . The same apply here. Avoid a to flat file/folder structure . worst case is just dumping 40000 mp3 files in the same folder . Use something in the line off ..../artists/album/track as a minimum. Some have even more elaborate schemes like /genre/a/artist/album/track with a folder for each letter in the alphabet . Or listener to classical,music can have a structure based on other criterias as the pop oriented artist/album don't fit that good. What are you running the server software on ? The Touch itself with attached drive or a computer or a NAS . If you collection is growing very large it migth be time to use more powerfull hardware . Compounding this are the fact that the Touch itself is very underpowered to actually run the server software it barely works if you are lucky . They should have given the poor Touch some more ram . The Browse Folder function is not a high priority for Logitech it was deviced as a " test mode " and sometimes they even thought they should scrap it completely ? This mode of accesings one music has been more common than Logitech foreseen ,they have not devoted enough resources to improve it . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96244 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
