Rhythmbox hang during Library Load

Patrick Boutilier boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca
Sun Feb 27 19:35:15 UTC 2005


John Best wrote:
> Hello..
> 
> I am using Rhythmbox 0.8.5 with fedora core 3.   I have been having
> difficulties while loading a music library... I select File->Import
> Location   and browse to the location of my music files and click ok.
> It appears to start reading the files and the "LOADING SONGS" progress
> bar appears.. But that is it... I have left it running all night and
> into the next day with no change... 
> 
> If I browse to the location of an individual album/group of songs, it
> seems to work fine, but when I try to do the whole library at once... It
> never seems to end or make any progress...No New songs/artists appear...


Might be an unknown or corrupt file in the directory.


> 
> Anyone experience this behavior and know of a possible work around?
> Thought is it might have something to do with long file names, special
> chars etc.. (The library was pulled/copied from windows - actually it
> resides on a shared FAT partition between xp and linux) 
> 
> (OR MAYBE THERE IS A BETTER OPTION? - tried xmms but the library
> management & GUI is poor...) 
> 
> Thanks for any assistance
> 
> 
> John Best
> jbest at insightbb.com
> Yahoo Msgr: JohnJBest
> 
> 
> 




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