> Oh, so I botched my script... But most of those files are mp3: > find . -name '*.mp3'|wc -l Nokia-N800-51:~# find /media/mmc2 -type f | grep -ic mp3 417 > > This was prior to nicing the crawler. > > Ok, nicing should fix that particular problem I think. > Could you verify that? Seems to. Thanks! > You can copy the whole .meta_storage onto PC and then use strings > there. Not sure whether Windows has this utility though. *hits head with desk* Of course, silly me. Still not used to the powerful connectivity for debugging. I can't get my SD reader to work on my Linux laptop, so I borrowed an XP system to fsck the SD card. > Ok, I guess the reason for 5 mins is the large number of mp3s. > I hope one doesn't need to wait all 5 mins until any of them > appear in the Media player, because then it's a very bad > performance problem, otherwise it's not so serious. No more 5 minute hangs, thanks. However, the general response from the Media Player is a little slow, but I suspect that could be still due my duplicate MP3 list. Media Player is still reporting 838 music clips (there may be a few non-MP3 clips as well). Here's the interesting bit: # strings .meta_storage | grep media | wc -l 576 The .meta_storage file has about the right number of entries as I have MP3s. How do I get rid of Media player's 'Now Playing' playlist? Thanks, Gary
