Problems with large number of songs

[rodzu]

I have been using GMMP for a very long time (5 years??).

I lost my Samsung A51 on which I had GMMP installed, and was successfully using it with a 512GB SDSX card with about 400GB of songs.

I have a new 1 TB micro SDSX card in my new Samsung A54 5G phone onto which I copied 690 GB of songs - 3021 folders, 53,427 files.

Both cards have the same manufacturer and specs other than the storage capacity.

A few questions: 
- The scanner in GMMP is taking a very long time to index the directory.  At least I think so.  I cannot find a way to track the scanner progress.
- Can GMMP handle this many songs?
- In settings when I look at the scanner database stats, it shows only 49806 songs rather than the 53427 songs that are on the card.  I suspect that is because the default setting is to ignore MP4 files.  I have some of those.  I went back into the scanner settings and checked the option to include MP4s.  Do I need to rescan the files, or will the scanner automatically update the database?  I have seen no change in the database stats since I changed that option several hours ago.
- When I select the "Library" option, and select "Songs", the screen shows a list of songs.  However, when I start to scroll , the screen show "..." in the three locations where title, artist, and track length are to appear.  After about ten seconds, the proper information is populated.  What can I do to prevent this?


Thanks for any information you can provide.

Rodzu

[MotleyGord]

Jan 12, 2024 13:39:11 GMT -5 rodzu said:

I have a new 1 TB micro SDSX card in my new Samsung A54 5G phone onto which I copied 690 GB of songs - 3021 folders, 53,427 files.
A few questions: 
- The scanner in GMMP is taking a very long time to index the directory.  At least I think so.  I cannot find a way to track the scanner progress.
- Can GMMP handle this many songs?
- In settings when I look at the scanner database stats, it shows only 49806 songs rather than the 53427 songs that are on the card.  I suspect that is because the default setting is to ignore MP4 files.  I have some of those.  I went back into the scanner settings and checked the option to include MP4s.  Do I need to rescan the files, or will the scanner automatically update the database?  I have seen no change in the database stats since I changed that option several hours ago.
- When I select the "Library" option, and select "Songs", the screen shows a list of songs.  However, when I start to scroll , the screen show "..." in the three locations where title, artist, and track length are to appear.  After about ten seconds, the proper information is populated.  What can I do to prevent this?


Thanks for any information you can provide.

Rodzu

53k songs will take quite a while to scan. I have 26k and it takes about 12-15 minutes if I delete the database and run this from scratch.
If you have just checked the option to include MP4 tracks, you will need to rescan to have the scanner pick up those missing tracks.
Long lists, especially the one for all songs, will take a longer time to load when it has to index 53k tracks. Shorter lists like Albumartist or Album should take less time. The really short ones like Genre should be almost instant.

[GoneMAD]

so the android OS only allows the scanner to run at 10 minutes at a time before it kills it and restarts it. which is why you may see it not progress at all if it is running and the numbers arent incrementing.. its looking for files that have changed since the last scan. I recommend plugging your phone in when running the initial scan as that allows things to run the fast and there is a lower chance of processes being killed

after enabling the mp4 setting you would have to run another scan

"- When I select the "Library" option, and select "Songs", the screen shows a list of songs. However, when I start to scroll , the screen show "..." in the three locations where title, artist, and track length are to appear. After about ten seconds, the proper information is populated. What can I do to prevent this?"

Get a faster device and/or faster storage. If a scan is still running in the background most operations are going to run a lot slower until the scanner is done. With a library of 50k you shouldnt even be using the song list. I'd remove it from the library and just use search if you are trying to find a specific song