Slow scanning of music directories

[Edward Hades]

On Sunday 14 December 2008 09:01:25 Big O wrote:
> > 7-8 minutes to do a total rescan of 25 gigs is quite fast. Which is
> > probably what is happening.
>
> A full rescan _seemed_ faster in sqlite. sqlite being dead and all I
> can make hard statements anymore. In linux with mysql server it was
> definitely much faster (Amarok 1.4). If you're making claims to the
> contrary I'd like some hard numbers to back it up.
> Anyone with a 20-30 gig collection fancy doing scan to ease my
> skepticism?

Just scanned a 21 gig collection in 4:30. Amarok with sqlite was subjectively 
slower, although I don't remember any hard numbers from there. Could checkout 
a pre-mysqle version if you insist.

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