An update for all of you who provided advice to help me with my very long scan times and, mainly, my slow and clunky music folder navigation. I have spent a silly amount of time over the last week tidying up my collection in order to try to solve these issues. I tackled it in 4 phases.
1. Studying the scanner log showed that the main error messages were caused by a significant number of cue files unable to locate the corresponding full disc flac file. Invariably the problem had been caused by foreign characters in some of the file/track names getting mangled (oh the joys of an old classical music collection). I went through correcting all these errors 2. I found substantial blocks of tracks with little or no tagging data attached, which had been missed in the past - these tags were updated 3. I finished the ongoing process of converting residual ape and wv files to flac. 4. I used cue splitter to split up all remaining whole disc flac files into individual tracks and eliminated cue files. After each of these four stages I did a complete cache cleanup and overnight scan on my Tranquil BBS2 Atom WHS 2011 server. I have to report that, within experimental error, the scan times remained pretty much the same i.e. about six hours for a full scan, about 2 hours for a rescan for files changes. In parallel to this, at each stage, I used my newly updated music library backup on an old, energy profligate, desktop machine, (Win7 with LMS same version 7.7.2) to do faster scanning checks for errors etc. In this case, full scan was consistently about 2 hours re-scan 10 -15 mins throughout. At the end of all this I certainly have a more orderly collection, the database of my music should be in much better shape and sql based random playlists will find long lost tracks. But Ive seen absolutely no evidence that it has noticeably improved scan times and Music Folder navigation (my preferred means of music selection) appears to be as erratic and clunky as ever. Which is a great pity! In the middle of all this, I received an email from Logitech customer services requesting feedback and my opinion about their products and whether or not I recommended them to friends and colleagues. I took the opportunity to express, in no uncertain terms, my disappointment at their dropping the Squeezebox line just as the market for quality streaming products is taking off. I trust that everyone else has done the same. Thanks again for everyone's help with this - I am still open to any suggestions as to how I can improve Music Folder navigation and, if at all possible, how to stop the automatic scanning which appears to be triggered when moving through Music Folders. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ChipMonk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40072 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96244
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