Rhythmbox 'forgets' what's on my iRiver H320 DAP (and takes 5 min. to rescan every time I execute it)

[Dean Jansen]

*Every* time I restart Rhythmbox it has to rescan the entire player (20gigs!). I have to wait approx. 5 minutes before I can access all my music.

Does it do the same with an iPod?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use?

[Dean Jansen (list)]

I'm on Dapper Flight 5 with current updates.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That's known upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328526

[Stu Hood (stuhood)]

I'm using Edgy with Rhythmbox 0.9.6, and its doing the same thing with my 60GB iPod. It uses 100% of my CPU for 10 minutes to list all the songs on it every time I plug in the iPod or start Rhythmbox.

But the real trouble is that I have the iPod support plugin DISABLED anyway, because I don't want to use Rhythmbox to manage what goes on there, and it still insists on the indexing.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

if you don't use the ipod plugin the generic-player plugin is used. You can unload if with the /apps/rhythmbox/plugins/generic-player/active gconf key

[Stu Hood (stuhood)]

Aha! Thank you very much Sebastien, that will certainly work. Although, I don't think I agree with the decision to hide that plugin by default. The number of computers that will be associated with an mp3 player is probably less than 50%.

Maybe all plugins should be shown in the interface by default? There aren't enough to be overwhelming, and they are all named clearly...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

upstream code some basic feature as plugin for technical reason, they don't think they need to be an user choice though. If you want to argue on that better doing it upstream, we are not taking to make a choice different of upstream for that

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Confirmed with a generic player, it rescans 40GB of oggs every time it starts

[Declan (declan-moriarty)]

I have an iAUDIO X5 with Rockbox and it takes 20+ minutes to scan the files every time the player is connected. Putting a .is_audio_player file in the tob level directory telling it which directories stored music didn't appear to work. The playerer also comes up as Toshiba in Rhythmbox. It also only shows .m3u playlists not MP3 files. Some of the albums have playlists others don't. You can't find out what is in the playlists to play individual tracks.

Note that I have about 10Gb used in my player in total, some of that is taken up by the rockbox software and other operating system files.

Version of Rythmbox: 0.11.2
Ubuntu: 7.10 Guttsy Gibbon.

[Keffin Barnaby (keffinbarnaby)]

Confirmed in the latest Hardy snapshot (rhythmbox 0.11.4.90) with an iPod Classic. Whoever marked this as low priority doesn't have an mp3 player with more than 5 songs on it :(.