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Audiosoft
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posted on 6-4-2008 at 08:13 PM
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-Is it possible that eJukebox becomes less efficient on the long run, or even damage my mp3s(!?) if I never or rarely compact the database?
Hi Pirk, it will not damage any mp3s but it could become less efficient. Compacting makes the database file smaller and defragments it. This improves
read and write performance after adding songs. You can try disabling compacting and see what happens after awhile. The database should still work good
and will be a bigger file. Just in case the ejuke.bac file now gets created at the very end of every shutdown. If database gets corrupted it will try
to repair and compact it automatically on startup. Only if that fails will it ask if you want to restore the backup.
[Shutdown]
NoCompact=1
It should be fine and not become corrupted with this option as I believe most database corruption reports where do to killing ejukebox in taskmanger
during the compact operation. No compaction will take place with that above option. The only thing you should watch for is the file size of the
ejuke.asn and ejuke.bac files. There is a 2GB limit. After adding allot of songs it is probably a good idea to let it compact on shutdown once so that
it defragments the new data in the database.
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Pirk
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posted on 6-4-2008 at 08:51 PM
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Hi Audiosoft,
OK thanks, you reassure me. I'll disable compacting on a day-to-day basis, and I will only compact occasionally. In particular each time I just added
a lot of new albums..
I think eJukebox should continue to work good because sometimes I use the Vista power saving mode daily during a week or two: In this case eJukebox
and other programs are never closed and they continue to work good! Well some time.. 
Thanks again for this option. That will be very useful in case of a (too) large collection!
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Well_Jaggy
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posted on 6-5-2008 at 06:48 PM
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Yeah, I have added the "No Compact" too. Although it didn't take too long on my spanky new machine!
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