recognizing changes in files

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 6:13 AM, Mark Kretschmann wrote:
>>
>> PS: While most file systems support mtime, a minority of them doesn't.
>> Among those is FAT32, and possibly also NFS, which would explain your
>> problems.
>>
> Since this topic came up I'd like to ask one question. Currently all
> my audio files that I want to access from amarok collection are
> sitting in one directory. The directory and its contents reside in one
> ext3 partition (no symlinks to other partitions). When I try scanning
> this directory for adding to the collection, only ~10% of my audio
> files are scanned. ~90% of my audio files (mostly mp3, but also some
> mpc and ogg) do not show up in the amarok collection. Some first order
> subdirectories are not even touched. I tried both importing my amarok
> 1.4 playlist and creating the playlist from scratch. Same results. Any
> ideas why this is happening to me?

Yes, this sounds like you've hit a bug in the collection scanner code
that I fixed a few days ago:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176154

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Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
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