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Slow load over Network Drive

Bug #372991 reported by Mehdi Abaakouk
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Bug Description

Sorry to post here. i have no idea who else to ask this question from.

I am new to linux and running Ubuntu 8.10. I love Listen, I think it's an amazing player and I want to keep using it.

I have a music library of ~ 10,000 songs stored over a Network Storage device (USR8700). Every time I start Listen, it takes 5-10 minutes for the library to load. And when I search for something, it takes several minutes to get back to the full list.

Is there anyway to speedup the loading process?

Any help would be appreciate it. My email is <email address hidden>

thank you

This ticket was migrated from the old trac: re #872
Originally reported by: pasha07

Revision history for this message
Mehdi Abaakouk (sileht) wrote :

Try turning off the options:
    Check my library for deleted files on startup
    Check my library for added/changed files on startup
on the Library tab in the Preferences dialog.

Originally reported by: benvm

Changed in listen:
assignee: nobody → Mehdi Abaakouk (theli48)
importance: Undecided → High
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Nikil Mehta (nikil.mehta) wrote :

I'm seeing the same issue when my library is at a directory mounted by sshfs. I have turned off all the automatic library scanning settings. When I load up listen, a ton of network traffic take place between my machine and the network drive. This means it takes a long time to start up listen and load my library, and if I close listen before it finishes loading the library, the songs.db database gets corrupt (some songs appear to be removed).

Couple of questions about this: What exactly is being transfered over the network at startup? Are there things that listen needs to discover from files in the library each time it starts that are not located in the songs.db file? Is there a way to store those pieces of information in the db instead?

Great program! This is one of the only things that makes it difficult to use for me...

Mehdi Abaakouk (sileht)
Changed in listen:
assignee: Mehdi Abaakouk (sileht) → nobody
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