Changes in directorties w/ music files

[Lydia Pintscher]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 01:24, Jeff Mitchell <kde-dev at emailgoeshere.com> wrote:
> Chris Joelly wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> i use Amarok for almost 3 years now but one thing annoys me very much:
>
> Chris,
>
> You seem to hit on a few separate issues here.  The first:
>
>> how can i tell amarok how often it should scan a filesystem for changes
>> in new music, changes in id3 tags and so on. i have a rather big
>> directory structure in which my files resides, and amarok is scanning
>> almost every minute for new files, somtimes there are only a few seconds
>> between two scans.
>> i think that once a hour or probably once a day should be sufficient for
>> amarok to look for new or changed content. sure, i could trigger scanning
>> of my music archive manually, but iirc amarok doesn't scan my fs that
>> often about 3 years ago ...
>
> I've only recently heard reports of some bug or regression that causes
> Amarok to repeatedly scan over and over for some period of time.  I
> haven't seen it myself, so I haven't figured out what causes it.  You
> may be hitting this issue.  I believe what seems to be happening (except
> that I don't think it *should* be happening) is that if a scan is
> running and the incremental scan gets triggered, instead of the
> incremental scan being ignored, it is queued up and runs after the
> original one.  So until those all finish running it seems to run over
> and over.

I heard about this as well. Usually a full rescan fixes it. Can you
try that Chris?


Cheers
Lydia

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