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Issues with large music library - UberKitten - 2025-01-29
I got my Tangara the other day and updated it to 1.1.2.
I prepared a microSD with exFAT, and put my whole 150GB music library on it. Songs are in the format /Music/<Artist>/<Album>/<Song>.ogg. There are 40k files over 19k folders, broken up into 16k .ogg files, 10k .lrc files, and 12k cover.jpg files.
Unfortunately, that may have been a little too much for the Tangara. The DB icon in the top right is always there, which I assume means it's indexing the database.
I've left it plugged in for a day, but it just seems to crash and reboot after some amount of time and never finishes the database. Tangara Companion always says the database size on disk is 2 kib, so it doesn't seem to be getting anywhere.
I can use Files to browse to music, but the file browsing is quite slow, and it can take multiple minutes to load a file.
Any suggestions? It would be nice if I could build the database on my computer using the companion app.
RE: Issues with large music library - jacqueline - 2025-01-29
Hi! This is a fairly large library, so indexing may take some time. It does sound like the indexer might be choking on some of your files however; this isn't the first we've heard of large ogg collections causing crashes during indexing. Unfortunately we haven't gotten a repro case for the crash yet however. Sorry about that!
You *might* be able to get through indexing by transcoding to a format like Flac, but obviously this is far from idea. Being able to do the indexing step via the companion is indeed a good idea, we'd like to implement something like that eventually to make the experience with very large collections a bit nicer.
RE: Issues with large music library - UberKitten - 2025-01-29
I would be happy to 7zip up my whole library and send it via Dropbox link, but I get that may be impractical to work with, lol.
Instead, I replaced all the files with 0 byte files, and I was able to reproduce the issue with that. There are quite a few folders with unusual unicode names in my library, so that might be the issue.
Here is an archive of all the empty files that should be easy to repro:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/o12j9r73x0wnoiatukkol/Music-0-byte.7z?rlkey=4z822k5rxf9nv4z4yeymuvsd5&st=74ft3ayl&dl=0
RE: Issues with large music library - jacqueline - 2025-01-30
Oh awesome, thank you! Will get this loaded up and see if we can repro your crashes.