Bug 180385

Summary: Amarok rescans collection every time media is removed and added again
Product: [Applications] amarok Reporter: Matt Hubert <matt>
Component: generalAssignee: Amarok Developers <amarok-bugs-dist>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Matt Hubert 2009-01-11 22:28:17 UTC
Version:           2.0 (using 4.1.3 (KDE 4.1.3), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.27-9-generic

This is the same as Bug 127473, which was resolved in Amarok 1.x successfully, but is back in 2.x.

Amarok rescans your collection every time you unmount and remount your media while Amarok is running. For large collections (1TB in my case), this means hours and hours of scanning every time.

1.x handled it very well by just bringing back your collection without rescanning when it was remounted. It has since disappeared in 2.x.
Comment 1 Mark Kretschmann 2009-01-12 10:02:58 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 171213 ***