Slow scanning of music directories

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On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 4:47 AM, Edward Hades <edward.hades at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
No I don't.
I think it's safe to say that a 4 gig increase in files being scanned
should not result in almost twice the time to scan them.

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