Changes in directorties w/ music files

[Jeff Mitchell]

Sven Krohlas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>>> 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. 
> [...]
>> The normal incremental scan period is 60 seconds.  The reason it is so
>> constant is so that Amarok picks up on changes (file additions and
>> removals) quickly.  Since if nothing has changed the scan simply
>> performs a few stats on a few directories, it's not usually an issue.
>> You can of course turn the incremental scan off.
> 
> well, i've seen that for ages, or at least something similar. Think about
> large collections: Amarok needs minutes to check all directories for changes.

No, usually it takes less than a second.  If you have thousands of
individually hand-picked directories over a slow wifi link on a SMB
mount, maybe it could take multiple minutes.  Even then I doubt it.

> Longer than the re-scan interval. So from the users point of view it seems
> Amarok is more or less constantly scanning for new files.

No, apparently the problem is that it actually *is* rescanning for new
files...as soon as one scan ends another begins.  Not that it appears to
be doing it.

--Jeff