The TinyLMS on the Touch has two levels of scan, a check for new files, and a full scan. The check for new files runs every time it boots up. All it is doing is looking at the file name and date and comparing it to its internal database. This is a very fast operation. If it finds any music files that are not in the DB or which have a newer date, then it does a full scan on these files looking for tags and embedded artwork. This takes some time for each file it is "deep scanning". As long as the database is up to date (you don't have a lot of new files) the scan for new files should be pretty fast. For example 30,000 files takes about 1.5 minutes on my Touch.
The check for new files can be very fast (a minute or so) if the number of files on the disk is not huge. It is the number of files period, not the number of music files that matters. For example if you have 5 million files on the disk and only 200 music files the scan for new music is going to take a very long time because it actually has to at least look at all of the files to see if they are music files. So one thing you can do is make sure you just have music files on the disk, this will speed up the scan for new files if you have a lot of non-music files on the disk. The other issue is that the scan for new files is only fast if the database exists already. If it does not it is going to do a full scan on all the music files which can take a long time. Some things can cause the full scan to fail which prevents the DB from being built, which means it is going to do a full scan on all your files every time it boots. You can check on this by carefully monitoring the scan process on the screen and see what it says. If the DB is intact you will get messages about scanning for new files, it will then tell you the number of new files found and start doing the deep scan. If the number of new files is zero, then the database is fully intact. If the number of new files is large, something has happened. So I would recommend watching the scan messages carefully during one of these 20 minute scans and report back what you see. That will give us some insight into what is happening. Also let us know how many files you have on the disk, how many are music files etc. That will help understand what might be normal or not for your setup. John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99991 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
