Rhythmbox hangs when reading my music from a directory

[Bastian Doetsch]

Am Samstag, den 16.10.2004, 15:10 -0400 schrieb volvoguy:
> > > On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 11:27:20 +0200, Bastian Doetsch
> > > <bastian.doetsch at gmx.de> wrote:
> > > > Hi there,
> > > >
> > > > i have the effect, that rhythmbox starts hanging, not adding any
> > > > additional music files to its database after a certain amount of time.
> > > > Is this behaviour already known? Is there a workaround available?
> 
> I had a problem like this when I was using an older machine and
> accessing my files via SMB on another machine (also relatively slow).
> I asked the Rhythmbox dev folks and they said that by default,
> Rhythmbox rescans your whole music collection at startup - but that
> was a slow process in my case (about 6000 songs). They suggested that
> once my library had been built once, I run the application with a flag
> to not rescan the library during startup.
> 
> "You can pass --no-update."
> 
> This isn't an issue for me anymore as I'm using Ubuntu on a really
> fast PC, but you might want to try it once and see if it helps
> anything.

Hmm...I run Ubuntu on an Athlon64 3200+ with 1G RAM. So that shouldn't
be the reason. And the update is not the problem. It just stops
importing without noticing it.

> 
> Aaron
> 
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