Sync with library enhancement turned off
Hi, this is not a bug technically but the library enhancement is creating highly extended, unncessary sync times when it is turned off.
I do not require library enhancement due due to the decades I have spent getting the tags in my library how I want them - having the artists and albums modified in my library is not helpful for me. I also need to have a consistent artist and album description across various applications in both cloud and off-line listening (for travel, which I do extensively for work). I listen across such as MediaMonkey via laptop over network, DAP media player, phones and tablets - so it is helpful to retain a consistent experience. Also a lot of my music is highly obscure or old, so is then not found in the online references such as FreedDB, MusicBrainz etc that the pulling of the meta-data is from.
When I run a library re-sync of 100K+ tracks earlier, the sync itself is done in an hour or so. But the following check for all the artists and albums I do not require, but still runs as part of library enhancement is still running four hours later and only up to the letter C of the artists.
It would be more efficient and take less server processing to identify when library enhancement is off and not initiate the checking of the artists and albums for this data.
Also, Symfonium will add the additional artist data (which can be toggled off) without modifying the albums, which feels a sensible half-way option for those of us with albums we have spent time describing to fit our preferences (people with extensive libraries of their own music stored in the cloud will more likely to of done this work, younger more casual listeners will not).
Thanks
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We could add a specific latch to disable LE entirely I suppose.
It shouldn't be performing full LE sync each time. Is this what you are seeing on more than one consecutive sync? Artist and album info is cached, and only re-enhanced when something has changed.
Also, Symfonium will add the additional artist data (which can be toggled off) without modifying the albums
This is how Astiga works too.
@Coyley I've just noticed by the way that one of your sync jobs was stuck for several days, but this was due to a problem with pCloud. I force stopped this and your syncs should restart again.
Thank you, that's appreciated.
When I do a sync, even for albums that haven't changed Astiga tries to check them all again at both album and artist level. You should be able to see the server log for my sync about 13:30 on Saturday - adding to and syncing the library of about 110K tracks was done quickly but then the checking of all the enhanced data was still running when I went to bed near midnight, even with enhancement turned off.
Can you check the latest sync that runs today? If you see a lot of messages about "not querying because recently checked" that's the caching working. It might be that the Saturday sync just happened to be the occasional "refresh" query - that only happens a few weeks apart IIRC.
I reviewed the latest sync, it looks like it took about 25s for the LE: