如何加快媒体扫描？ -- performance 领域 和 media-search 领域 android 相关 的问题

When putting new music files or images onto the sd card of my android phone, android needs to scan for new files. Is there any way to speed up this process? E.g. putting all files in one directory? Currently I organized my music this way: music/artists/albums/files.mp3 Any suggestions?

One method is to put a file called .noMedia in the root of every folder that you don't want to be scanned. It won't improve the scanning of actual media, but it will prevent wasted time searching elsewhere (or indexing things that you don't want indexed, such as app assets).

some of the slowness may be due to the speed of your storage media.

If it's built in storage than there's not much you can do (apart from what Matthew Read suggested)

if it's an SD Card, maybe check that it's not a class 2 or something. perhaps try and get a class 10 to speed things up.

beyond those changes it's down to the device CPU speed

There's no need to organize your files in any other theme. Android is indexing the media file and since api 1.0 player should query the Media Store which is using this index.