I do not understand why a playlist-only scan should require a cleanup of the database.
I have been asked not to discuss this in the bug tracker; apparently extremely long, potentially unnecessary scanning is not considered a bug. (Possibly it's a feature?) My comments from bug 6308 are listed below: ***** I have four playlists. The scan of those playlists finishes in 28 seconds. I am then forced to sit through: "Merge Various Artists" (1547 of them), takes 5:04 "Database Cleanup #1" (31782), takes 1:34 "Database Cleanup #2", might have finished in 2 minutes or so, hard to tell. So basically 9 minutes to scan my four playlists, with a lot of scans I didn't ask for. ***** At the risk of trying your patience, can you explain to me why doing the playlist checks you mention should require [the above listed scans] . . . >From the outside, I would have thought that a user-initiated playlist-only scan would have meant something like this: "I have created this playlist. Please add it to your list of playlists." It apparently also seems to mean: "Please make sure every song in the playlist is present in the database so you can play it." which is fine, but I would not have thought it _also_ meant "and while you're at it, conduct an eight minute cleanup of my database." and I'm not completely sure why it should have to mean that. Especially when those other database cleanup scans take place AFTER the playlist scan (if the messages to the user are to be believed), meaning that the playlist scan doesn't even benefit from scanning a newly clean database, if that was supposed to be the point. ***** Any help appreciated. I cannot see how these additional database scans and cleanups could under any condition be considered necessary. If you want a full database cleanup, then do a full scan! If you've added new music, do a full scan! (Or a "new music scan".) But if I just want to create a playlist and add it to my list of playlists, that process should not require anything beyond checking to make sure that the playlist entries are in the database -- should it? -- smr888 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ smr888's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2658 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42540 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
