the progress bar of collection scanner is going back and forth

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From mail@icesheep.de on June 23, 2010 10:01:08

Dealing with big collections on a network drive, collection scanning may take a lot of time. It would be very useful to have a progress bar showing the current scanning status.

I know that there is issue 168 but I think it's a good idea to put this one into a separate report since issue 168 also covers a lot of other things which are less important right now (at least in my opinion).

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/clementine-player/issues/detail?id=436

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From davidsansome on June 23, 2010 07:00:22

This issue was closed by revision r1303 .

Status: Fixed

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From davidsansome on June 23, 2010 07:04:44

It's not quite a progress bar but I've made it show the percentage next to "Updating library..." in the status bar.

It's not completely accurate - you might notice the percentage go down if you look closely. This is because it walks through the directories recursively and won't know how many it has to look at until it's walked through them all, at which point it's finished :) So instead it will give a guess to start with and get more accurate as it continues. It's good enough I think.

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From mail@icesheep.de on September 13, 2010 04:34:59

I think we should reopen this issue. In my case, the percentage rises quick until about 90% and then goes up and down between 90% and 99% for a long time. Of course this it better than having no progress indicator, but for new users who don't know about the technical background this could be rather confusing.

What about creating a list of the files to scan before starting the scan?

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From davidsansome on September 13, 2010 11:30:55

Yeah a two-pass approach would probably work a bit better. I'll reopen.

Status: Accepted

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From keirangtp on December 23, 2010 15:59:51

Summary: the progress bar of collection scanner is going back and forth
Labels: -Priority-Medium Priority-Low Component-MusicLibrary

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From shenanigans@kaztl.com on March 22, 2013 22:11:05

My library is nearly 100GB on a mobo with very slow bridges. Watching the progress going up and down and up was reminiscent of many scenes in sitcoms and movies when the second hand on the clock ticked backward, just once. At the end of a day's dualboot struggle when one wants to get their library back online, the experience is as upsetting as it is hilarious.

Please, please fix this.