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Devs please please please fix SB's iPod mount time in linux
This has already been posted, but i think its worth a serious amount of effort to fix. In Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex and Hardy Heron, the most popular Linux distributions I believe, my ipod with around 70gigs of data takes over 5 minutes to mount. once mounted, performance is acceptable but not great. however, songbird is so ahead of the curve that if the mounting lag was fixed it WOULD be the ABSOLUTE media manager and imo player on the linux platform. there seems to be many performance related problems on the windows side, but lets face it they have many more commercial options and currently songbird is the light at the end of the tunnel for linux users. I love this project and i can't wait for its future! For now i will try the 8pre and see if how things go
I’m anxious anxious anxious!!!
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Inappropriate?Hi uschxc,
We appreciate your patience as we deal with this issue. I would definitely recommend downloading the latest build here, as hopefully your mount time will be somewhat, if not greatly, improved with the newest version.
I would also suggest, if the problem continues, deleting your profile and creating a new one, as this has been shown to help some users with this problem in the past. Directions on how to delete your profile can be found here. -
Inappropriate?I upgraded to 1.0rc3, backed up my old profile (which you should suggest imo instead of deleting the old one) created a new library and erased the ipod and synced it with the new library db. the iPod now takes about 2-3 minutes to mount...and there is significantly less hard drive activity going on. previously songbird wrote a rather large amount of data to a journal file then i believe consolidated it with the local ipod db. whatever the method was, there is virtually not disk writes but about the same processor usage throughout the mount time.
can i some how start over again with a clean install and have songbird spit out a log of its activities? it might be possible to track down the mount lag that way.
my ipod automounts when i plug it in, here is the auto mount options, maybe that is causing an issue; being mounted improperly.
rw, nosuid, nodev, uid=1000, fmask=0077, dmask=0077, codepage=cp437, locharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed utf8 flush
i hope we can figure this puppy out
I’m cautiously hopeful
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