Can I limit what files are included in database?

[Frankenpod]

Having trouble building database.

I got it to work (to my great surprise!) perfectly well on a modded ipod mini.  I thought 40,000 tracks with whatever limited RAM the ipod mini has might not work, but it worked very easily.

Flushed with this success I tried to do it on my ssd ipod video (which surely has more on-board RAM?), but on that it just hangs on 'committing database (1/9)' forever.

I was thinking maybe that is because my ipod video has all the music files of the mini, plus a load of audiobooks and podcasts, and perhaps that is too much for it to cope with?

So maybe if I could tell it to only database the music folder and not bother with the audiobooks and podcasts, it would have less trouble.  I really don't need the non-music content to be databased. Is there any way to do that?

Alternatively, is there any other reason why the video might be hanging on the database build when the mini can do it fine?

Thanks.

Edit - am using the most recent build (downloaded two days ago).  Ideally I'd like to limit the database build to just the 'Music' folder as opposed to the 'Audiobooks' and 'Podcasts' folders.

[saratoga]

I got it to work (to my great surprise!) perfectly well on a modded ipod mini.  I thought 40,000 tracks with whatever limited RAM the ipod mini has might not work, but it worked very easily.

I don't think you need more RAM for a larger database.  Its stored on disk IIRC. 

Flushed with this success I tried to do it on my ssd ipod video (which surely has more on-board RAM?), but on that it just hangs on 'committing database (1/9)' forever.

How sure are you that the SSD is actually working correctly with your player? 

[Frankenpod]

I got it to work (to my great surprise!) perfectly well on a modded ipod mini.  I thought 40,000 tracks with whatever limited RAM the ipod mini has might not work, but it worked very easily.

I don't think you need more RAM for a larger database.  Its stored on disk IIRC. 

Flushed with this success I tried to do it on my ssd ipod video (which surely has more on-board RAM?), but on that it just hangs on 'committing database (1/9)' forever.

How sure are you that the SSD is actually working correctly with your player?

Actually, never mind, as on the second try (after deleting the temporary database files) the database build just went ahead and worked fairly quickly.

(I have been using the SSD in this player for quite a while already - with an earlier build of rockbox - just always hesitated about building the database as I'd heard bad things about it - but when it worked so easily with the ipod mini I thought maybe I shouldn't worry about it)

Thanks for the reply though, I possibly should have tried again first (but only just read about deleting the old database files)