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It's been scanning for over 2-3 hours now. I don't have that many songs in my library. I have about 1700 I believe. It doesn't show the progress so I'm not sure if its even scanning, when i go to the contextual menu I get an option to "STOP SCAN". So I'm not even sure.
Please help. Wish there was a progress bar or indicator of somesort. I am in AEON skin btw
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If you tell me just how you told XBMC to "scan your itunes lib" I can try it tonight and let you know what happens.
I am wondering how you told it to do this...
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access the contextual menu while you're in music view and go to scan, it finally finished took about like 4-6 hours... geez... i got like 1755 songs
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Scanning the iTunes library into XBMC's library isn't supported, that's why it's taking that long. For each song, it has to run the Python interpretor.
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but how is that any different if i were to move all my music files into a different directory (outside of the default itunes directory) and scan that? only reason i scanned was so i can use the library mode.
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hrmm, yes i had those enabled, am i suppose to turn those off before performing the scan? i mean pretty much all my music has embedded art, tagged, etc...
now everytime i add a new song on my mac, i have to go ahead and add each one in manually thru xbmc? it doesnt seem to auto update the database like it does with my movies.
i can get a debug log if you can tell me exactly which file it is.
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no i am not using the itunes plugin at all. that didnt work well for me. so i am using this method of just scanning the itunes music library myself.
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Cool - then the only reason it's slow is due to the web-based lookups. Allmusic.com is notoriously slow.
Update Library will pickup any changes in your filesystem, and it'll only rescan folders that have changed, so should be much snappier.
Cheers,
Jonathan