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yep, bobbin007 did a really great job on speeding it up!
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*edit by hullebulle: you know the channel rules, don't ya?
requesting binaries is not allowed.
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her, will this speed increment have some impact over browsing of dvd full of mp3? as todey, they crash xbmc.
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is it just me or is the scan speed for my music back to 'same old slow' scan speed in the 2004-02-01 cvs?
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ok so after some testing it seems as though this speed improvemnt got lost for the 040201 cvs or else i'm doing something strange.
i tried installing old 040131 build and scan was still slow.
then installed 040130 bulid and scan is fast again.
confirmation or opposite anyone?
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my xbox has been offline for the last month or so so i haven't actually got any cover art yet. i do think there are two albums out of 600+ that still got theirs left from before though. apart from those the default image is used. i believe i deleted all mumusicxx.db files. but i'll have another go and see if i get any differences.
sorry for bringing it up here but another thing about this default cover art image. i've made a default image as a png and removed the jpg version for retro-skin. this made the default image dissappeared from album view. so i put the jpg back and then the default image is back but it seems to be using the png as there is an alpha channel!? you can see it for yourself if you use the retro skin.
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2004-02-13, 19:30
first time here so forgive me if i'm out of line.
i was just wondering if anyone considered doing media folder location scanning offline ( say on the server pc ) and then just downloading an index file to the xbox to create the folder tree.
i had a similar issue creating player software for a pocket pc, if i scanned the music folder ( say 1000 folder and 10,000 tracks ) it would take forever. what i ended up doing was creating a little app that actually called a dos batch file ( retro - yeah - but fast! ) to do create a list of all the folders and put it into a text file. my pocket pc then simply downloads the text file and uses that to list the top level of the folder tree. once you've listed the top level you can just go get the folder contents.
now my little indexing program is pretty primitive. i'm sure anyone could improve on it. all i know is that my ppc will show me 1000 music folders and let me browse them in less than 5 seconds. it's a faster system than any other that i've seen on any other media front end ( myhtpc, mce, showshifter ).
there are also ways to get into windows media player's pants and pluck out it's info. that way you can just let it catalog all the media and then distill it into something that can feed your media player.
anyway, that's just my 2 cents for consideration. thanks for all the works you guys are doing. i'm just waiting for my mod chip and hope to be able to use xbmc shortly!