Everytime I open the dash and go to the music lens to search for a specific title, it takes quite a while till any titles are displayed and I can hear my hdd working during the process.
I didn't copy too many of my CDs to my laptop so I don't really get why it takes the lens so long to load any matches.
Is there a way to make the lens search from a customized database? Or does it use an approach like that by default?
After reading the whole music library once the lens works really snappy and instantly displays titles. Sadly everytime I reboot and go back to the lens it again takes much longer to display any results, as if it needs to build a new database after every reboot.
Unfortunately I wasn't able to find a lot of information about the music lens and how it works so I ask here.
I'd be happy to get some clarification and maybe a few hints as to whats going wrong.
/dev/sdc
where the music-lens is built into dash by default. Response time was near instantaneous finding music on a Windows 7 partition in/dev/sdb
. Therefore files are pre-indexed and kept in a cache file somewhere. As this unanswered question written 5+ years ago is about Ubuntu 12.04 which is EOL, VTC'ing asnot reproducible
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