2008-08-28, 00:15
I would just like to point out here you know that big delay you get when entering a really large directory full of music that hasn't been scanned to the library.
Well thats the extra time it takes to read all the id3 tags from the music files before it can display them. if you turn off id3 reading its pretty much instant.
the same thing will happen if you have to read a bunch of NFO files for every movie in the list before you can see it. You say your fanart shows instantly (which I doubt anyway on an xbox) yes because it only loads 1 at a time. If you want to show the meta data int he list you would need to load it for every single file in the directory every time you enter it.
A better idea instead of letting it use the NFO files all the time is to actually use the library database file and fetch the info out of it (after you have scanned them in). But you say "getting info from IMDB takes ages" well since you allready have made all your NFO files anyway it will be no different on first scan than entering a dir full of NFO's but will be 100 times quicker on every other time you access it
Well thats the extra time it takes to read all the id3 tags from the music files before it can display them. if you turn off id3 reading its pretty much instant.
the same thing will happen if you have to read a bunch of NFO files for every movie in the list before you can see it. You say your fanart shows instantly (which I doubt anyway on an xbox) yes because it only loads 1 at a time. If you want to show the meta data int he list you would need to load it for every single file in the directory every time you enter it.
A better idea instead of letting it use the NFO files all the time is to actually use the library database file and fetch the info out of it (after you have scanned them in). But you say "getting info from IMDB takes ages" well since you allready have made all your NFO files anyway it will be no different on first scan than entering a dir full of NFO's but will be 100 times quicker on every other time you access it