I Get 50% Used But MC Stays Basically Locked Up For Over 15 Min's
I did wonder in the C:\Podcast folder and MC was downloading media files i could see them being created.
came backup with a tagging error (not sure why maybe because i deleted some of the podcasts when i was in there).
once MC was done with the podcast it seems it is ok now.
i went in to mc and deleted a podcast file, and MC became non responsive again.
it seems once you delete a file in the podcast list mc will download the file again and make mc non responsive until the file is downloaded.
what i thought was interesting is when i deleted the subscribed podcast in mc the files remain listed. then i deleted the file in the list and rebooted mc.
when loading mc again it went to 50% in the task manager (never showed up on the desktop). but it seemed to be downloading the files t hat were in the now deleted podcast list.
So far I have not been able to reproduce the 50% CPU or the lockup problem, but work continues....
Currently we have no way of keeping track of which episodes you have deleted in the past. Hence we treat a deleted episode as though you have never downloaded it.
You should get the following behavior:
-- If the episode is no longer present in the feed, it vanishes from the list.
-- If the episode is still present in the feed, but isn't one of the N most recent episodes you asked to download as necessary, it stays in the Podcast Feed list, but its file location switches from on local disk to available from the http:// location shown.
-- If the episodes is still present, and is one of the N most recent episodes, Media Center starts downloading it again.
If we are to avoid the thrid case, we need to remember which episodes have been deleted. We could do this by marking them with a kind of <deleted> status in the database. The <deleted> entry could then be removed when the file is no longer available from some feed. That is a little messy, but it could be done.
The tagging errors usually occur because the file being downloaded is not actually an MP3 file, and we are not yet smart enough to detect that and not try to tag it. Usually the file is a media type that doesn't allow tagging or sometimes a torrent file. We're talking about handling torrent files in the future....