On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:21:35 -0600, John Best <jbest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello.. > > I am using Rhythmbox 0.8.5 with fedora core 3. I have been having First of all... I have rhythmbox 0.8.8 on my FC3 install. How did you get 0.8.5? > 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... Could you possibly run this from the command line and see if there are any error messages? > > If I browse to the location of an individual album/group of songs, it > seems to work fine and relatively quickly, 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... Exactly how many songs are we talking about? You might want to search around the web and lists for performance problems with plenty of songs. I have no experience in this regard as I only have less than 1gb and mostly listen to streaming music. > > 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...) There's beep media player on the livna repo. But that's just xmms with gtk2. I think there's this thing called muine, but you'd need to go through mono installations to get that working. How about mpg321? =) > > Thanks for any assistance > dex
