There is a
Fast access mode in the
Media Folder Configuration
(Use this option to minimize disk access, for instance if your media files are located on a network disk.
Note: Changes to files will only be visible after your media folders are scanned.)
Also,
Scanmode Metadata in the
Admin Panel could be responsible for slower/faster scanning of files.
See here.
First time scans always take much longer as scans where only difference is checked.
Network Shares mostly will take much longer to scan as Local Drives, also there can be 1000 of reasons, why scanning is slow, i.e. Virusscan, other process which use disc drive at the same time.
I.e. its not a good idea to scedule a scan for SubSonic and Madsonic at the same time.
Some ppl. told me, that NFS is faster than SAMBA, but I made contrariwise experiences on my systems.
It also depends on the (meta)data which is to scan (I have enabled
multiTag support,
advanced IDTag support and
Custom Tags via
Settings -> ID3-Tag, so it will take even longer to process all the files, I guess.
I don't exaclty know for sure how Madsonic handles this, but maybe if a user has >3 Media folders configured, they all will scan at the same time and thats not good for disk I/O as well. Sequentiell scanning is better/faster as parallel (well at least, on my old 5400rpm SATA discs).
Its hard to tell and there is no "scan faster" button, unfortunately ;-)
P.S.
Serverlog (from left NavigationBar) is a good place to check how long how many files need to be scanned.
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[5/6/18 4:51 AM] INFO MediaScannerService Scanned media library with 238500 entries.
[5/6/18 4:51 AM] INFO MediaScannerService Scanned media library with 238000 entries.
[5/6/18 4:50 AM] INFO MediaScannerService Scanned media library with 237500 entries.
[5/6/18 4:50 AM] INFO MediaScannerService Scanned media library with 237000 entries.
[5/6/18 4:50 AM] INFO MediaScannerService Scanned media library with 236500 entries.
[5/6/18 4:50 AM] INFO MediaScannerService Scanned media library with 236000 entries.
[5/6/18 4:50 AM] INFO MediaScannerService Scanned media library with 235500 entries.
[5/6/18 4:50 AM] INFO MediaScannerService Scanned media library with 235000 entries.
[5/6/18 4:49 AM] INFO MediaScannerService Scanned media library with 234500 entries.
[5/6/18 4:49 AM] INFO MediaScannerService Scanned media library with 234000 entries.
[5/6/18 4:49 AM] INFO MediaScannerService Scanned media library with 233500 entries.
[5/6/18 4:49 AM] INFO MediaScannerService Scanned media library with 233000 entries.
[5/6/18 4:49 AM] INFO MediaScannerService Scanned media library with 232500 entries.
[5/6/18 4:48 AM] INFO MediaScannerService Scanned media library with 232000 entries.
[5/6/18 4:48 AM] INFO MediaScannerService Scanned media library with 231500 entries.
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[5/6/18 3:30 AM] INFO MediaScannerService Scanned media library with 57500 entries.
[5/6/18 3:29 AM] INFO MediaScannerService Scanned media library with 57000 entries.
[5/6/18 3:29 AM] INFO MediaScannerService Scanned media library with 56500 entries.
[5/6/18 3:29 AM] INFO MediaScannerService Scanned media library with 56000 entries.
[5/6/18 3:29 AM] INFO MediaScannerService Scanned media library with 55500 entries.
[5/6/18 3:28 AM] INFO MediaScannerService Scanned media library with 55000 entries.
[5/6/18 3:28 AM] INFO MediaScannerService Scanned media library with 54500 entries.
[5/6/18 3:28 AM] INFO MediaScannerService Scanned media library with 54000 entries.
[5/6/18 3:28 AM] INFO MediaScannerService Scanned media library with 53500 entries.
[5/6/18 3:28 AM] INFO MediaScannerService Scanned media library with 53000 entries.
[5/6/18 3:27 AM] INFO MediaScannerService Scanned media library with 52500 entries.
[5/6/18 3:27 AM] INFO MediaScannerService Scanned media library with 52000 entries.
[5/6/18 3:27 AM] INFO MediaScannerService Scanned media library with 51500 entries.
[5/6/18 3:27 AM] INFO MediaScannerService Scanned media library with 51000 entries.
[5/6/18 3:26 AM] INFO MediaScannerService Scanned media library with 50500 entries.