Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] song import

[Gisli Ottarsson <gisli adams com>]

Whoops!  I knew even before releasing the <Enter> key that I had made a
mistake by deleting the xmms playlist file.  Let me see if I can
recreate it (either from the laptop (good paths) or from another client
(bad paths)) and recreate the bad Rhythmbox behavior.

Gisli



On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 10:29, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> 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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