Accelerate playlist viewing (8 Viewers)

[catavolt]

I´m always testing new features, but this one seems a bit exaggerated to me
1000 entries in a playlist gives you about 2 days uninterrupted music (if tracks have about 3 minutes duration) - so who needs this in real life?
It´s nice if MP can handle those extreme demands, but if it´s really worth it I can´t judge
As a skinner ofc I need to see what impact it has on the skin regarding response times

 

[ajs]

Ist there someone else who wants to test this useful optimization?

I can't check it, because all my playlists are small, but I rarely use them, I usually just run the music I want at the moment and then Mediaportal itself adds what it sees fit.

 

[horned_reaper]

I use one big playlist to randomly play all songs of my database.
And even displaying playlists with only a few hundred songs takes very long, compared to other media players.

 

[ajs]

Mediaportal don't like long lists

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[horned_reaper]

Room for improvement
hwahrmann's change would improve the handling of long playlists.

 

[ajs]

Well, as for me, this is not an improvement, this is a workaround. This option does not solve the problem of long lists, and is actually very inconvenient. But this is a simple, fast and effective solution for non-demanding lists.

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[hwahrmann]

No change in my environement with the new DLL, neither with nor without the new config file entry. I can't find the new log file entry as well.
I tried it with an existing playlist from a M3U8 file and with a new from a file folder created playlist.

Sorry, you need of course in addition this file. Should go into the plugins\Windows folder

 

[horned_reaper]

Thank you very much for your efforts, hwahrmann!

The dynamic playlist load works well. Only the first pages are displayed and the processing is fast. Also the new numberOfSongsToLoad setting is applied.

However, there's bad impact to the playlist shuffling: Only the first 1000 (or count set in MP config file) tracks are shuffled.

And, the optimization only is applied when playlists are loaded via MediaPortal. If a playlist is loaded via the OneButtonMusic plugin, still all playlist tracks are loaded when the playlist is displayed.

 

[ajs]

However, there's bad impact to the playlist shuffling: Only the first 1000 (or count set in MP config file) tracks are shuffled.

With this solution, the behavior is only this, no other option is possible ...
Look - Accelerate playlist viewing

 

[catavolt]

For me the playlist loading still takes around 30 seconds (as before), but now my playlist is shortened from 1124 tracks to 1001 - for me no great step forward. Sorry Helmut