MP looks frozen on large directories

[perplexxen]

I have my music-files on a NAS. When I go to My Music MP starts to read the music-directory but does not show any progress-indicator. It seems MP is frozen.

A progress-indicastor would be nice.

When I am looking at a tv-channel and a programmed recording starts on another channel MP freezes.

A warning like "MP is going to start recording channel XXX is a few minutes. Do you want to change the channel?" would be nice.

[Paranoid Delusion]

I have my music-files on a NAS. When I go to My Music MP starts to read the music-directory but does not show any progress-indicator. It seems MP is frozen.

Make sure you have scanned these files into the music database (MP config\music\database) then change the view inside MP\Music to whatever you like, ie artist or album, much quicker.

When I am looking at a tv-channel and a programmed recording starts on another channel MP freezes.

That's a bit of a answer, but its easier if you can to add another tuner, with TVServer it really increases viewability of available channels.

[MdFolter]

[quote=Paranoid Delusion;279423]

I have my music-files on a NAS. When I go to My Music MP starts to read the music-directory but does not show any progress-indicator. It seems MP is frozen.

Make sure you have scanned these files into the music database (MP config\music\database) then change the view inside MP\Music to whatever you like, ie artist or album, much quicker.

Same problem here, I got a NAS and it takes a while for the artists show up. I have tried to change view, didn't look into it very deep, but I didn't like it as it showed the artists/albums under a, b, c, while with shared files view I see my neatly ordered artists and albums.
Can I change the view of the database so that I can view it the same way?

Thanks in advance!

[Paranoid Delusion]

Remove group and 1 from artist view in MP config\music\music views

This will then show all.

[daniel_1980]

Is there a possibility to disable all database functinonality in MP? I don't need it.

[Paranoid Delusion]

Is there a possibility to disable all database functinonality in MP? I don't need it.

If in shares view, then database is not loaded as such, just the viewable files.

But you cannot totally delete a database, it will always be there, if thats what you mean, as it just get recreated on each MP start.

[LRFalk01]

Originally Posted by Paranoid Delusion

Make sure you have scanned these files into the music database (MP config\music\database) then change the view inside MP\Music to whatever you like, ie artist or album, much quicker.



That's a bit of a answer, but its easier if you can to add another tuner, with TVServer it really increases viewability of available channels.

I am having a similar issue with my Videos screen. I have about 330 Movies on my MP, and it takes about 9 seconds to show the list. This would not be a big deal if this delay only happened once; however, it does this each time it has to show this list. I downloaded the MP source code and it looks like a lot of the functionality is done with ArrayLists rather than List<>. This is probably a big part of what is causing the slowness. MPII I saw uses List<> though, so this will probably be a much lesser deal in that version. (I am still trying to get familiar with the source code, so this is only my guess currently.)


-LRFalk01

[Kris404]

Originally Posted by daniel_1980

Is there a possibility to disable all database functinonality in MP? I don't need it.

I dont need the database functionality as well. I keep moving the folders and drive letters all the time, which means MP tries to re-read the tags.

What is the rationale behind reading all the files' tags in a folder before playback?

Kris

[daniel_1980]

Originally Posted by Paranoid Delusion

If in shares view, then database is not loaded as such, just the viewable files.

But you cannot totally delete a database, it will always be there, if thats what you mean, as it just get recreated on each MP start.

What I mean is:
A simple File Explorer would be enough for me to select the file (audio or video) to play next. I will never search for a special singer or anything in a database.
It takes up to one minute to just enter a folder with 200-300 mp3 files, then it takes up to 30 seconds to start playing the file I selected. When the reason for that behaviour is the scanning of all tags that is mentioned in this thread, the easiest solution would be to turn of this database functionality. I don't care if there is a database file created or not, I just want faster reaction of MP.

What is the "Shares view"?