Rhythmbox hangs when reading my music from a directory

[Rafa R.J.]

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:10:14 -0400, volvoguy <volvoguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> Aaron
> 

Thanks for the response, but it happens when adding new stuff, and
even only adding one album (7-8 songs) with one jpg, and I had no
problem to add a bunch of albums (10 or more) without jpg's. Also the
Pc I'm using is not an ultimate model, but is not too old (athlon
800Mhz 256 Mb ram)

Two weeks ago when i first installed ubuntu I also had some problem
adding the albums, I think that it crashed a couple of times, but
finally, and maybe after a upgrade I was able to add all my songs
without having to move all non music files somewhere else. The problem
was that I compiled my own kernel and I did not include the support
for the filesystem of the partition in where i have my music, so when
I started rhythmbox it forgot almost everything and then whas when i
had the problem re-adding my music to rhythmbox.

Anyway thanks for your response again, and the "--no-update" option
seems interesting :-)

Rafa