Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] song import



Hi,

There is a known issue with gst-plugins blocking on small files, I think
this is fixed in gst-plugins 0.8.6. If this is a different problem,
could you make this xmms playlist file available if you haven't deleted
yet?

Thanks,

Christophe

Le mardi 30 novembre 2004 à 09:50 +0000, Gisli Ottarsson a écrit :
> Thanks for the -d flag Christophe.  Like Jonas I thought I had observed
> a bad regression in song-import performance.  I now think I have a clue
> about what was happening in my case.
> 
> By way of background, I have approximately 18Gb of .ogg files on a
> server which I access from many computers in my home -- among them a
> laptop on a slow wireless network.
> 
> In the past, I have frequently had to re-read the library from the
> laptop, because if I start Rhythmbox when the server is, for some
> reason, not visible, Rhythmbox purges the songs from its records.
> Reading the library used to take a while, but usually well below 1
> hour.
> 
> Last week I noticed that this was taking a lot longer. I let the laptop
> run overnight (ca. 10 hours).  In the morning the CPU meter was still 
> pegged so I killed it.
> 
> I ran with -d and I noticed that Rhythmbox got hung up on an xmms
> playlist file which was sitting among the .ogg files.  I removed the
> xmms file and the library now loads in 15 minutes.
> 
> Some closing observations:
> 
>  o  The .xmms file has been there for a very long time.  It may 
>     contain some nonsense, but it has not bothered Rhythmbox before.
>     It is very possible that the .xmms was written by a client which
>     mounted the server disk differently and the .xmms may have
>     contained bad paths to the songs.
> 
>  o  Although I stay current with debian/unstable, I can not give good
>     information about when the new behavior started.
> 
>  o  If anything, Rhythmbox now imports my songs *faster* than it did
>     before.  Perhaps the rogue .xmms file was slowing it down slightly.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
>    Gisli
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 15:47 +0100, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> > Le samedi 27 novembre 2004 à 16:40 +0100, Jonas Bernoulli a écrit :
> > > hello
> > > 
> > > importing songs takes very long in rhythmbox. also i have noted that all 
> > > songs endup with three stars after the import.
> > > 
> > > unfortunately i did not find this behaviour documented anywhere.
> > > 
> > > (i should not that i wasn't able to use the help within the program, but 
> > > think that this documentation should be available over your webpage also)
> > > 
> > > well anyway, what does rhytmbox do with the songs? 
> > 
> > What do you mean exactly? Do you mean « What does it do that takes such
> > a long time when importing songs »? If that is your question, using
> > rhythmbox -d should help to find out which songs are taking along time
> > to import. Upgrading to gst-plugins 0.8.6 may help too. What do you mean
> > by "a long time" btw (in terms of number of songs and time taken)?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Christophe
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