Bugzilla – Bug 995
SS v6.0b1 scanning library glacially slow
Last modified: 2011-03-16 04:18:50 UTC
I tried the first public beta of SlimServer 6.0 on Mac OSX 10.3.8 and it is really slow on initial scanning of my Library (iTunes), albeit my library is quite large (15,000+ songs). Updating after an ID tag change is equally slow. V5.1.x is much more responsive, which sent me back to the latest nightly (3/9). All firmware and software is the most current.
it will be first time becuase it has to read each file and construct the database. 15,000 songs might take upwards of 25 minutes to complete (I'm at about 18 mins for 10,000). After that, re-reading itunes xml should be much faster when changes are detected, and server startup should be much faster than 5.x.x. If you are finding that this is absolutely not the case, please provide log output, d_info (for timing song by song scan) and maybe d_server to get an idea of startup time, maybe add d_http so there is a timestamp for the first time you are able to get a reponse from webUI, or d_command, d_ir for first response to player UI.
I waited about 40 minutes and my library was scanned. At this point a bigger problem presented itself. The SB was showing a lot of artist entries that do not appear in either iTunes or the Slimserver interface. All these artists contain no songs. The excess artists appear when browsing artists, genres, etc. Maybe it is the composer field that is being displayed, but that option is off in Slimserver. Back to v5.4.x:-( Julius
Thanks for the report. I believe Dan checked in a fix for the 'composer in artists' settings today, so that will be in the March 10 build. it would still be useful, if you feel up for another run at it, to have information on the timings of the scans, as output in the d_info log as each importer completes. We can compare this to other known systems.
Julius - if you still have the slimserversql.db file around, could you upload it to this bug? It will help me track down the problem. Thanks.
Created attachment 316 [details] slimserversql.db from v6.0b1 (3/10 build) Dan, I installed the 3/10 nightly build of v6.0b1 and the artist listing problem is still present. Attached is the file you requested from this install. Julius
Julius - what are some of the invalid Artist names? Thanks.
They are definitely Composer entries. I am not running v6.0 currently, but some of the �artists� were �A Kidjo/J. Herbrail�, �A. Levine & J. Valentine�, and �Aaron Johnston, Clark Gayton, Didi Gutman, Jesse Murphy & Sabina Sciubba.� Hope this helps. Julius
Julius - I've commited a fix as subversion change 2451. It will be in tonight's build - or if you are tracking subversion, sync your tree. Thanks.
Excellent. Can�t wait to try it.