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hi, when i turn my xbox on the music stops then goes, stops then goes, till i navigate to my music, go to the music box, then a bar comes up saying " scanning media info., loading media info. from files. virtualpath://music/music. after it's scanned it runs normal. but till i get the my music menu it may take 3 minutes, it is jerky stopping then starting till i get to the my music menue and then the scan takes place. after this all is well. can anybody help me with this, it is annoying
huh? are you implying that you have a python script kicking off a playlist on startup?
i don't know what a python script is. but it seems the music is starting to play before it is actually scanned or loaded in the data base. when i start up it goes to the xbmc dash, the music start playing automatically, it stops, resumes, stops, resumes, stops, etc. till i go to the music file , then the loading media info from files comes up and scans, then it's alright. i hope you understand i'm new to all this stuff.
but it seems the music is starting to play before it is actually scanned or loaded in the data base.
if music is playing, you've asked for it be played in one of several manners. and nothing is scanned into the database until you tell xbmc to scan into the database. this is achieved through music files view, using the "scan to database" context menu option.
when i start up it goes to the xbmc dash, the music start playing automatically
ok so now we've established how you've asked music to start. you have an autoexec.py script thats running at startup which is kicking off a playlist. for testing reasons, look in the scripts folder for autoexec.py and post it here. (it's likely calling another script which will need to be posted as well but we'll know that for sure after seeing autoexec.py.)
then the loading media info from files comes up and scans, then it's alright.
this dialog you're seeing is not the database scanner. its the tag reader running. when the tag reader is enabled (in settings -> music), xbmc will read in all the tag information so you get more than just filenames in the display.
it stops, resumes, stops, resumes, stops
does this occur at the song transition or seemingly randomly while music is playing? given that this stops after the tag loader has run, it seems to be related to the lack of meta information. and xbmc always wants to get meta information for the current song. this could be delaying the next song from starting.