NAS drive + Server on Wireless PC = terrible scanning

[tboooe]

I just moved my server from a wired PC to a more powerful one that is wireless on my network. When I had the server directly wired to my router, Subsonic pretty much had no issues scanning my library. Once in a while a newly added album failed to show up for awhile but for the most part my library was scanned completely. Now that I have moved to a wireless PC, about half of my media will not get scanned in. I have rescanned several times but same results.

I know there has been a lot of discussion about the robustness of the Subsonic media scanning, but has anything been done or has there been some sort of work around?

[hakko]

I don't know what you use your Subsonic for (movies, TV series, music etc). If your main focus is music and you care to play around a bit, I'd be interested to hear if this works better: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=10587. I've thrown out Sindre's media scanner and replaced it with code I've written from scratch.

I haven't seen any other attempts to fix the media scanner from Sindre or anyone else.

[GJ51]

I just moved my server from a wired PC to a more powerful one that is wireless on my network. When I had the server directly wired to my router, Subsonic pretty much had no issues scanning my library. Once in a while a newly added album failed to show up for awhile but for the most part my library was scanned completely. Now that I have moved to a wireless PC, about half of my media will not get scanned in. I have rescanned several times but same results.

I know there has been a lot of discussion about the robustness of the Subsonic media scanning, but has anything been done or has there been some sort of work around?

Although there may be some issues with scanning files in Subsonic, there's no doubt that if you asked me what's the worst way to set up Subsonic, I'd have to say use a NAS for storage and put Subsonic on a wireless PC. Don't get me wrong, it can be done, and probably be done successfully, but those two factors may be introducing other variables that could make it harder to determine the cause of the problems your having. I have several Subsonic servers running ver. 4.7 and none of them have had significant scanning issues. I've had a problem a time or two, but nothing that wasn't easily fixed. Probably the best suggestion I can offer, if in fact this is a scanning problem, is to do the following:

Go to Settings and uncheck all the Media Folders - Hit Save.
Click on scan media folders now
click on Clean-up database
re-enable the Media folders and rescan.

I use a pretty complex system where I upload new music to an "Upload Server" that hosts one instance of Subsonic and every night that server uses Synctoy to update my primary storage server that hosts another instance of Subsonic. Within 24 hours all new music is available on all instances of Subsonic that I have installed on multiple servers and VM's.

I think that once the library is cleaned up, the automated routines do a good job of keeping things up-to-date without issues.

HTH