From: Rainer M K. <r.m...@gm...> - 2011-03-01 09:48:18
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On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Javier Kohen <jk...@gm...> wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:58, Rainer M Krug <r.m...@gm...> wrote: >> >> On 02/28/2011 10:35 AM, Javier Kohen wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:26, Rainer M Krug <r.m...@gm... >> > <mailto:r.m...@gm...>> wrote: >> > >> > Hi >> > >> > One question: I can only set the maximum time "auto save every >> > second" >> > to a maximum of 100 seconds - that is not much (at least ion the >> > ipod >> > touch 1 gen, where the transfer is rather slow and the updating is >> > also rather slow). Would it be possible to increase that limit, or >> > even set it to minutes? I can not imagine someboty doing autosaves >> > every less them one inute. >> > >> > >> > Certainly. I think this is related to the problem I reported with this >> > setting being linked to another one. If P.G. doesn't know what I'm >> > talking about, I might try seeing how this GTK+ UI designer works and >> > see if I can spot the problem. >> >> Great - thanks. > > Both the problem you and I were seeing have been fixed with my commit > 91b0b77b8082cd04d75d74477e70367a167e5e20. > I'll look into more precise timing next, but it's not as important I think. True - although it is irritating, that the 100 seconds save takes actually considerably longer... > >> >> > >> > One reason not to make the limit to high though is that it seems the >> > time spent transcoding tracks is not taken into account because of the >> > way the saving code works, so what happens is the following: gtkpod >> > spends 60 seconds (or whatever you set this property to) reading songs >> > from your file system, which on my system gives about 120 songs, then it >> > transcodes all of them and finally saves the database. The transcoding >> > takes about 20 minutes here, so obviously the setting is not doing what >> > it's intended to do. I only found this out last night, so I'll think of >> > ways to fix it. >> >> I don'd have any transcoding, as I do this manually. >> >> Now is a workflow question in need: >> >> 1) I mount my iPod (touch, 1Gen, 32GB) and load it into gtkpod >> 2) I add songs via "add folder" and this copies about 10 songs to the >> iPod in 10 seconds. >> >> Would it be better / faster to add them to a local repository and then >> copy from the local repository to the iPod? > > Hm... why would it be? What are you trying to solve? To make thinks faster - but I can live with it. Cheers, Rainer > -- NEW GERMAN FAX NUMBER!!! Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Natural Sciences Building Office Suite 2039 Stellenbosch University Main Campus, Merriman Avenue Stellenbosch South Africa Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 Fax: +27 - (0)86 516 2782 Fax: +49 - (0)321 2125 2244 email: Ra...@kr... Skype: RMkrug Google: R.M...@gm... |