kdf Wrote: > On 15-Aug-06, at 8:27 AM, Patrick Dixon wrote: > > > > > dwc Wrote: > >> I think DaveP is on to it. If you "simply moved" your music > library > >> including playlists, you may have in effect just broken your > >> playlists. > > I'm sure that's the answer, however I also think it's legitimate to > ask > > why the scanning process doesn't recover gracefully from such an > error. > > > I propose we call it the Music-handling API for Gracefully Ignoring > Crap. MAGIC for short. > On seeing playlists with files that don't exist, it will instantly > determine whether the users desire is to index everything and skip > missing files so that the user doesn't have to keep fixing playlists, > or whether the user has simply moved a bunch of files and wants the > playlist scan to save time and just stop checking the files at all. > (kidding, of course) > > For now , no one can know what the problem actually is. It is not a > normal condition, but with refusal to have anything to do with logs and > > debugging, the only options are to hope the user will ship the computer > > to tech support for examination, or get over it and try the debugging > switches suggested. Otherwise, it is only speculation (which is, > arguably, more fun for the forum). It could just as easily not be > playlists; there are often cases where a user doesn't mention something > > initially that turns out to be critical information. Again, without > logs, there is no next step. > > Answer to the question: missing files shouldn't take that long to > determine as missing, but there could be any number of playlists with > any number of tracks. The scan could be made to quickly dump any > playlist that starts showing more than a few files pointing outside the > > music folder, but the users who insist in being able to link to files > outside the music folder for use with their favourite other music > managing software end up losing out. The scan is only as good as the > data it finds. Period. If there really is a problem, then the logs > will show it and it will be fixed or at least there will be > instructions on what needs to be corrected in the data. In the absence > > of logs, then it's just a rant. Fine too, but there are then less > resources to help change the conditions that caused the need to rant. > -kdfI'm all for MAGIC.
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