Re: [Gtkpod-questions] Safety feature when transferring huge number of files?

[phantomjinx <p.g...@ph...>]

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Rainer M Krug <R.M...@gm...> wrote:

On 02/15/2011 10:33 PM, phantomjinx wrote: > Good suggestions. There is a pref for this now so you can change it. I wanted to try it out, but could not find the pref in gtkpod-2.0.0.40d3357, installed from the deb - is it not in this release yet? If it is, where can I find it? Thanks, Rainer > Will think about changing it to time. Seems a better alternative. > > Cheers > > Phantomjinx > > Javier Kohen <jk...@gm...> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 18:23, P.G. Richardson < >> p.g...@ph...> wrote: >> >>> >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> I am trying to transfer nearly 4000 music files to my ipod. In >> principal >>>> it works fine, but today it hung with only 100 files left. As I >> could >>>> not save, I had no choice but to save without saving, delete all >> mp3s >>>> already transferred and start again. Therefore my question: >>>> >>>> Would it be feasible to do two things: >>>> >>>> 1) store the names of the already copied but not added files on the >> PC >>>> to delete those when the a crash occurs and the sync could not be >>>> completed? A check of the iPod files takes really long with a large >>>> number of files. >>> >>> Yes. >>> >>>> 2) possibly sync the database automatically after e.g. 10 files (or >> an >>>> album, if possible?) are transferred? >>> >>> Yes. >>> >> >> Hi, I've built gtkpod against HEAD and "hit" this feature. I think it's >> a >> great idea, but it terribly slows down the import process when the >> database >> is large (10000+ songs), since it takes substantially more time to >> write it >> than to copy the ten songs. Unless the database can be updated >> incrementally, I'd recommend setting the default to save interval 100 >> songs >> or more, since as is this feature seems only useful for very large >> import >> sessions (or very slow devices, but I don't know if those exist). >> >> Maybe it makes sense to autosave every minute. Using time as a factor >> for >> the interval makes it independent of the speed of the device, size of >> the >> files, and time spent transcoding files. What do you think? >_____________________________________________
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