Rhythmbox thrashing hard drive on startup

justforgetme · #1 29th April 2011, 07:09 AM

Hello there everybody.

so, I'm using the rhythmbox installation that ships with fedora for my music playback. Every time is start the darn thing up though I can hear my external disk (media library) being accessed really hard. I assume this is part of some sort of library self check and probably a check for new music(?).

So this got me wondering on how rhythmbox keeps up with my media library and if there is a way to make it more, you know.. Lazy! I assume that atm rhythmbox just checks every file it nows in my library for `something` and at that also checks for new files and folders in the library directory. So I guess It would be quite a boost in startup performance (disk thrashing) to just skip the existing files checks. Right?

Well, I obviously don't know how rhythmbox ticks so be nice.

cheers!

justforgetme · #2 2nd May 2011, 08:14 AM

Well, I would appreciate some input on this..

Any ideas?

giulix · #3 2nd May 2011, 08:34 AM

Started using Rhythmbox, had the same problem, did some googling, found out it only supports XML "database", switched to Clementine.

HTH,

justforgetme · #4 2nd May 2011, 07:38 PM

hmm... yes I did some googling too but didn't come up with an answer. the fact that the db is XML is something to worry about but i don't think it is the reason it re checks every folder at startup...

edit:
I've looked at other media managers aswell but i really don't like to loose the tight gnome integartion (drag''n drop into brasero or location etc. that rhythmbox provides) do all linux media managers do this stuff I tried using amarok but was dissapointed

giulix · #5 4th May 2011, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by justforgetme

hmm... yes I did some googling too but didn't come up with an answer. the fact that the db is XML is something to worry about but i don't think it is the reason it re checks every folder at startup...

What I meant is XML is bound to be very slow compared to a proper database. Besides, I couldn't find a way to disable the media directory scan either, so I dropped it (it took way too long even with my not-so-big music collection)

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Originally Posted by justforgetme

edit:
I've looked at other media managers aswell but i really don't like to loose the tight gnome integartion (drag''n drop into brasero or location etc. that rhythmbox provides) do all linux media managers do this stuff I tried using amarok but was dissapointed

If you're talking Amarok 2.0 I couldn't agree more, that's why I suggested the Amarok 1.4 revive, i.e. Clementine