Fernán, You should pester the Ubuntu packagers for updated ntfs-3g. I'm really surprised they're not on top of it, considering the risks of bugs in filesystem drivers.
Anyways, Amarok will indeed relaunch the scanner process a number of times. As for the .m4a and .torrent files... Amarok distributes addons to TagLib that should handle m4a files, but there's always a chance it's buggy...that, or the Ubuntu maintainers may remove that capability from the build, in which case the collection scanner can't handle those files...might want to check with the package maintainers about that. So, what appears to be happening is the the scanner is hanging on non- music files, or music files it can't parse for some reason. I've seen this before, but I'm not sure of the cause...as far as I'm aware, it's supposed to detect files it can't handle and skip past them...but I could be wrong, as I didn't write the scanner code. Sometimes there are legit music files that may have had tags improperly written...or sometimes, legit music files or files that TagLib should skip over but some bug or another in TagLib causes it to act haywire. Unfortunately there hasn't been a TagLib official release since 1.4, even though there have been a ton of patches and bugfixes to the source code, so how many of those bugfixes you have depend on when the package was built, and what patches they added (or if they took a snapshot of the Subversion tree). So another thing you could try is pestering the TagLib packager to make a package of a current Subversion snapshot, and if they do it, see if that helps anything. But in the end, I think your best bet is to clean out the files that the scanner seems to be stopping on. Each time you hit a file that it seems stuck on, move it to an alternate directory and try again. If you do this, I'd like to try to get some of those files from you so that I can test them out here and try to fix the problems (if these are the cause). Hope that helps. -- Rebuilding collection eats up too much memory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/133554 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
