Can I prevent Amarok from scanning my collection on startup?

[Guest]

Amarok takes ages to become usable when I launch it because it scans my entire music collection on startup.

Can I stop this behaviour?

Let me clarify:

• "watch folders for changes" is unchecked, that's not the issue
• Amarok immediately knows the names and other metadata of my tracks, that's all there straight away
• nevertheless all the tracks are greyed out until they are scanned from the disk
• this makes the disk thrash.

It seems to me that Amarok has a cache of which music files it expects to exist, but insists on verifying the data is there before making anything playable. This should be done lazily, on demand.

Can I make it so that Amarok simply trusts the cache and doesn't touch the disk for any particular media file until it tries to actually play it?

[sithlord48]

the only suggestion i would have is to remove the collection from amarok. keep the media source unchecked and be sure that the other two options in collection settings are unchecked too (just incase) . and on the right side instead of using "Local Collection" to add files to the playlist try using the "Files" instead.. , i really like amarok but on some systems i use Qmmp instead because of the start up time and resource use..

[oshunluvr]

My personal song collection exceeds 6000 tracks. These reside on my server. Amarok accesses them as part of the "Local" collection via a NFS share mount. I have "Scan folders recursively" and "Watch folders for changes" both checked. My Amarok never does a full rescan unless I have told it to or it's a new install. I haven't changed any other configuration items that I recall.

You might look at "Metadata" and make sure you have your Local Collection selected under Statistics Sync.

Are you using Amarok's database or have you configured an external MySQL database?