Amarok 1.4 collection and artwork importing

[Jeff Mitchell]

Jonas Norlander wrote:
> 2009/10/29 Jeff Mitchell <mitchell at kde.org>:
>> Pedro de Carvalho Gomes wrote:
>>> I don't really agree with the use of the collection import for
>>> statistics only. I can enumerate some reasons:
>> It doesn't matter if you agree with it or not. The schema has changed in
>> many fundamental ways and there is not a good way to map everything 1:1.
>>
>>> - I would prefer to import all files from Amarok 1.4 than to fully
>>> rescan my disc because search for files at disc may consume too much
>>> time and my machine start trashing.
>> If scanning makes your machine thrash, fix your machine.
> 
> How stupid comment is this?
> He could have a perfect ordinary machine that works for most things,
> it doesn't mean it's something wrong with it. I have a Quad core, 4Gb
> Ram and fast sata2 disks and it still i a pain and take several hours
> to do a full scan of my collection.

The fact that you fail to know what thrashing is doesn't mean the
comment is stupid. There's a large difference between taking time and
thrashing your machine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paging#Thrashing
/proc/sys/vm/swappiness

>>> Also, why would I want to rescan
>>> if I believe I already have a reliable source of information (Amarok
>>> 1.4 database).
>> Because it's not as reliable as you think it is -- at least in the sense
>> that it's not really usable by A2.
>>
> 
> In that case it should be mention somewhere that the import of 1.4
> collection is not as usable in Amarok 2 as one would think and I don't
> think that hes alone to think that.

We've already all agreed that that could be made clearer, but thanks
anyways.

--Jeff

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