Snarlydwarf >>> I've been experimenting with this, and you're right on several counts.
If I set SS to use MusicMagic and also set a music folder, the scan takes 40 minutes; if I don't have a music folder set in SS, it takes 17 minutes. If I set only 'use MM', the song count is 3364. If I also set a music folder, the song count is twice that. But I have always used an UNC path to the networked music drive in SS (\\drive-alias\public\musicfolder); whereas MIP only lets you select an assigned drive name (Y:\musicfolder). When I use the same assigned drive name format in SS as in MIP, the song count matches: 3363. And one final idiosyncrasy I've discovered (probably everyone else knew this already!): when I've got SS and MIP agreeing about the number of songs (as per my last paragraph) MIP reports 752 Artists; but the SS library stats on the home page report only 444. (SS agrees with MIP on number of albums and of songs). However, when I browse in SS through, say, All Artists to All Albums to All Songs, SS displays the number of artists on that page as 752. What I think is happening here is that whenever SS is looking at All Songs, it counts how many artist names there are, including all multiple instances (i.e. individual tokens); but whenever it is summarising a higher level (albums; artists) it counts only how many *different* artists there are (i.e. types rather than tokens). MIP only reports tokens. This may be boringly obvious to most people; but it comes as a great relief to my orderly mind to understand the discrepancies between what I had assumed would be counts of the same things. To see the unaccountable discrepancies was an irritating puzzle! Best wishes -- Diana -- Diana ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Diana's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7463 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31265 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
