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Running Kodi with CarPC carbon skin. Connected via USB DAC function into my HEC USB Module (Helix DSP). All is well but I do have a few large folders with 1000+ songs in them. This causes Kodi to choke badly. I can see it do a complete scan of the folder. Then it seems to function ok. This happens everytime I power on the unit and go into that folder. I am running this on a Raspberry PI 3 and the data is on a USB SSD Drive. My tablets and kenwood headunit run this perfectly. I figured this would build some sort of database that would keep a record of what was in there so it did not scan this everytime? I tried to go into ADD MUSIC but I could not point to the drive... What else can I do to speed this up?
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I noticed if i leave the folder and go back in there is a long delay also.. like it updating something or looking for something...
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Music plays fine.. i just use the carbon PC skin and go to files and select the music I want to play.. the problem is it takes forever scannign each folder i go into and leave because there is a lot of songs in them. I have used XBMC in the past and figuerd well I can go to music and do ADD MUSIC option and create a databass which should speed things up... it just doesn't show my external SSD in there.. even tho it will play music from it i cannot find the drive in the ADD MUSIC area.... This Raspberry Pi stuff is all new to new to me.. I have it working great and it sounds far far superior to my highend kenwood double din thanks to a very nice USB DAC im using. I'm so close to making this my daily source.. I just have to build some sort of database so it doesnt drag so badly
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Yep you definitely need to use library mode. It should work with external SSD's fine, I do it on my local install.
Just make sure you tag all the folders with something that is identifiable and can be split up using nodes/smartplaylists or whatever.
Loading 1000 songs in a single node is always going to be slow due to icon caching (or reading), so you will have to split them up somehow.