Remove/Rescan Media Player Cache? - maemo.org

hangster | # 1 | 2009-12-07, 07:18 | Report

So I noticed that there were a few artists who were duplicated in the media player because of capitalization issues (The and the, etc.) So i fixed them up using my PC. The problem now is that the n900 media won't detect these changes, and it seems that I need to remove and rebuild the media player cache. I know that the files are handled using tracker, but what command would I need to use to have the tracker rescan and update all of the cache? Is there a cache file i can just remove to make it rescan? I'm not familiar with tracker, and all its options make it even more confusing.

Andre Klapper | # 2 | 2009-12-07, 09:51 | Report

Even rebooting did not make the device reindexing?

hangster | # 3 | 2009-12-07, 12:47 | Report

The device reindexed, but that made it worse. Since i only changed the ID3 tags (filename is the same) the media player KEPT the files with the incorrect tags and then created duplicates with the correct tags! So now i have multiple double entries. There has to be a way to clear the media player cache without reflashing...

chrget | # 4 | 2009-12-07, 14:36 | Report

Originally Posted by hangster View Post

There has to be a way to clear the media player cache without reflashing...

Ran into a similar issue while changing around stuff using the command line (ok, so I can't help it, I'm terrible that way

). I was stumped at first myself, read up a bit on tracker and ended up using one of the prescribed methods there, which, if memory serves me right, was running tracker-processes -r as user in an xterm.

Before you do, please re-check on that, as my memory is flaky already

And be prepared re-indexing will take a while.

Regards,
Chris.

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hangster | # 5 | 2009-12-07, 19:39 | Report

Thanks so much! That did the trick.

mikec | # 6 | 2009-12-07, 19:46 | Report

Originally Posted by chrget View Post

Ran into a similar issue while changing around stuff using the command line (ok, so I can't help it, I'm terrible that way

). I was stumped at first myself, read up a bit on tracker and ended up using one of the prescribed methods there, which, if memory serves me right, was running tracker-processes -r as user in an xterm.

Before you do, please re-check on that, as my memory is flaky already

And be prepared re-indexing will take a while.

Regards,
Chris.

Dont have my N900 yet, but can you confirm that the other tracker commands are there?

* tracker-control
Manage Tracker processes and data
* tracker-info
Get all information about one or more files
* tracker-search
Search for terms in all data
* tracker-stats
Show statistics for all Nepomuk defined ontology classes
* tracker-status
Monitor and control status
* tracker-sparql
Query or update using SPARQL
* tracker-tag
Add, remove or list tags

Cheers
Mike C

Andre Klapper | # 7 | 2009-12-07, 21:59 | Report

Originally Posted by hangster View Post

The device reindexed, but that made it worse. Since i only changed the ID3 tags (filename is the same) the media player KEPT the files with the incorrect tags and then created duplicates with the correct tags! So now i have multiple double entries. There has to be a way to clear the media player cache without reflashing...

I think that's actually worth a bug report in bugs.maemo.org (Platform > Data).
Please provide exact steps to reproduce, your successful workaround and a link to this thread! Thanks!

chrget | # 8 | 2009-12-08, 10:16 | Report

Originally Posted by mikec View Post

Dont have my N900 yet, but can you confirm that the other tracker commands are there?

Here's what's available:

Code:

Nokia-N900-42-11:~# ls -l /usr/bin/tracker*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        10016 Oct  2 11:00 /usr/bin/tracker-files
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        11744 Oct  2 11:00 /usr/bin/tracker-info
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        11196 Oct  2 11:00 /usr/bin/tracker-meta-folder
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        14420 Oct  2 11:00 /usr/bin/tracker-processes
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        11060 Oct  2 11:00 /usr/bin/tracker-query
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          819 Sep  1 18:11 /usr/bin/tracker-register-mimetype
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        11340 Oct  2 11:00 /usr/bin/tracker-search
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8452 Oct  2 11:00 /usr/bin/tracker-services
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         7240 Oct  2 11:00 /usr/bin/tracker-stats
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        15108 Oct  2 11:00 /usr/bin/tracker-status
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        13620 Oct  2 11:00 /usr/bin/tracker-tag
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        11416 Oct  2 11:00 /usr/bin/tracker-unique
Nokia-N900-42-11:~#

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Chris.

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slaxium | # 9 | 2009-12-08, 10:32 | Report

Hello,

I hope my question match this topic.
Is it possible to exclude directorys from tracker-search?
The cause is that i have too much music an videos on
my N900 wich are filling my list in the Media player.

Helmuth | # 10 | 2009-12-08, 17:47 | Report

Hi Chris,

Originally Posted by chrget View Post

was running tracker-processes -r as user in an xterm.

Doe's the tracker restarts itself or only after rebooting the device?

And it concerns also the Images?

So this could be a solution to delete Tags in the Tag Cloud for nomore used Tag's in the Images?

I'm a little bit afraid to test it myself. I'm a Linux beginner...

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