Trouble with files accessed over slow network link

[Alex Mauer]

Binary package hint: amarok

In gutsy.

Whatever Amarok does with files when it's updating/rescanning the collection is too intensive for slow(ish) network links.

I don't know if it reads (transfers) the entire file to get a hash of it or something like that, but it takes simply forever (several days for 40GB) to update the collection when on a relatively slow link (768kilobit).

Perhaps Amarok should have a "network mode" for this situation, where it doesn't transfer the whole file (assuming this is what's happening). Ideally this should be automatically detected, but a manual setting would be fine too.

[Lydia Pintscher (lydia-pintscher)]

Please report this wish to upstream at bugs.kde.org.
It needs to be done there.