Hi Melroy. Glad you like washtub. Scan Media is a little fickle. There's a couple reasons why it can error out. Both of which I just haven't had time to fix. Either the webserver timeout has exceeded. Typically, this is caused by the scan process taking longer that your webserver allows for a request to return a response. The other reason is that it doesn't handle character encoding very well. I've had problems with non-english filenames and utf-8 id3 tags. Both will cause the scan to error on file import.
I would suggest putting a small subset of files into the media directory to get it working on a small scale. You can also set DEBUG to TRUE in the setting.py file. That should display some better errors for you.
Scan media can error out
Hi Melroy. Glad you like washtub. Scan Media is a little fickle. There's a couple reasons why it can error out. Both of which I just haven't had time to fix. Either the webserver timeout has exceeded. Typically, this is caused by the scan process taking longer that your webserver allows for a request to return a response. The other reason is that it doesn't handle character encoding very well. I've had problems with non-english filenames and utf-8 id3 tags. Both will cause the scan to error on file import.
I would suggest putting a small subset of files into the media directory to get it working on a small scale. You can also set DEBUG to TRUE in the setting.py file. That should display some better errors for you.