NJDave71 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 8,582 songs were scanned and read in 39 minutes and 57 seconds From a USB 3.0 Started 10/4/2017 8:44:14AM ...... 10/4/2017 9:24:11 AM Saving Songs.xml file. the Songs.xml file is empty ---------------------------------------------------- Relaunched the program and the process is starting over....... Playback is very choppy. (not choppy with Winamp or windows media player) Note would be great to stop or interrupt the process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJDave71 Posted October 4, 2017 Author Share Posted October 4, 2017 After the Second Scan completed (30 minutes) Songs.xml was generated. Playback is no longer choppy. Playing music from an USB thumb drive --------------------------------------------------------- Closed and open the program a third time. Playback is now normal off the USB drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 Weird, i haven't seen a issue with the song.xml not populating, and i actually deleted it today as i re-tagged some albums and music box had 2 versions of every track on the albums i re-tagged. So i deleted the xml and let it re populate, no issues at all. This is a mix of mp3 and flac files also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJDave71 Posted October 4, 2017 Author Share Posted October 4, 2017 Here is what i did to reproduce the problem 1. Backup and deleted Songs.xml 2 deleted the Images from both (Artists and Genre) 2. Changed the path of the folder to scan D:\music --- G:\ 3 watched the Log File and music artwork populates 4. Once the file stopped growing in size i opened the log to see what it generated and the last line says saved songs.xml but it was still 1k <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> <MusicBox> <Song> </Song> </MusicBox> During the process i started to listen to some of the tracks that were being read in and the audio was choppy tried another Mp3 player and it played fine, --------------------------------------- If this file is populated each time the Application is reopened thereafter it performs flawlessly. it's just an issue when ran for the first time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 27 minutes ago, NJDave71 said: Here is what i did to reproduce the problem 1. Backup and deleted Songs.xml 2 deleted the Images from both (Artists and Genre) 2. Changed the path of the folder to scan D:\music --- G:\ 3 watched the Log File and music artwork populates 4. Once the file stopped growing in size i opened the log to see what it generated and the last line says saved songs.xml but it was still 1k <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> <MusicBox> <Song> </Song> </MusicBox> During the process i started to listen to some of the tracks that were being read in and the audio was choppy tried another Mp3 player and it played fine, --------------------------------------- If this file is populated each time the Application is reopened thereafter it performs flawlessly. it's just an issue when ran for the first time. Ah,OK. I didn't backup, didn't delete images (never even gave that a thought) same path, just binned the songs xml so it re-populated. The search is only run when you launch, and if its just a few extra albums it's not even perceptional to me. The xml is only written to at launch if there is new content scanned, i don't believe it is re-populated at every launch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmoney Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 No,at the moment is only scans for new content when opened. When I erased one of my albums from my music folder it still showed it in Music Box even though I had erased it. I had to erase the songs.xml and let it repopulate for it to take it out of my library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 2 minutes ago, kmoney said: No,at the moment is only scans for new content when opened. When I erased one of my albums from my music folder it still showed it in Music Box even though I had erased it. I had to erase the songs.xml and let it repopulate for it to take it out of my library. Yep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 I think the current issue with Songs.xml not getting saved is just that it doesn't save until the first full process is completed, which obviously needs adjusted. The process should go extremely quickly for fast drives, however I'm noting that slower drives can take a significantly longer time, so I think we just need to save the Songs.xml file intermittently instead of waiting for the full process to complete. We also do have some minor issues updating things when they change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJDave71 Posted October 5, 2017 Author Share Posted October 5, 2017 I wanted to test portability hence the thumb drive. The SSD WAS 10 min and mechanical 15 min. We will get there 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJDave71 Posted October 5, 2017 Author Share Posted October 5, 2017 I am continuing to test the USB 3.0 Thumb drive option. The program will crash when no drive is detected. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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