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Originally Posted by HappyTalk  I have my music well organised into folders for each album which each contain a folder.jpg. Using 0.2.2.0 I scanned in all my music and then notices
d that the thumbs\music\albums now contains 13,000 jpeg images! Why are the images being duplicated? MyMusic only ever shows 15 icons per page as it is, surely any pc is fast enough to generate 15 icons on the fly using the original folder.jpg images?
Is there a way to turn off this insane thumbnail creation?
I have noticed thumbnail generation seems to pervade MediaPortal in general bloating it for negligable performance gain. MyPhotos already has thumbs.db but creates even more thumbs (1 file per image) |
Please think about the tone you chose.. In your way I'd reply: "The well designed MP has gained performance for sure but I am insane enough not to find the hidden "use folder thumbs" config setting.
You're even two times wrong here:
The thumbs.db is a result of inappropriate Windows Explorer settings and therefore totally unrelated to MP.
If you'd like a meaningful answer instead of ranting:
- often folder.jpg aren't following the standards and are extremely large
- MP only needs thumbs of 2 certain sizes
- very often people have their music collections on extra drives, external (even low bandwidth USB) drives or network shares / storage. Access to those folder.jpg was slowing down MP considerably
- 99% of the music users have to live with NTFS - this doesn't feature dancing b-trees or similar directory indexing functions to speed up accesses to thousands of deep subdirectories.
- some people consider faster storage (even ramdrives) to speed up daily used features
- all thumbs can easily be relocated thanks to the new service provider
nuff said