MP freezes on a large MP3 folder (1 Viewer)

[Kris404]

Hi,

MediaPortal takes a long time to play a track from a large folder with MP3 files(2000+).

It looks like MP tries to read all the files' tags before playing the selected file. Naturally it takes a longtime to play the first track in that folder but after that it's easy to play other tracks.

Is there some way to disable pre-lookup of the tags before playback or disable the music database altogether?
I only use Shares / 'Filename' view and do not care about sorting the files/folder using other views.

Any help will be appreciated on this issue.

Thanks.

Kris


MediaPortal Version: 1.0 RC1 SVN-Snapshot:-06-27-2008
MediaPortal Skin: BlueTwo Wide
Windows Version: XP SP2
CPU Type: AMD Sempron
HDD: 40 GB
Memory: 1.25 GB
Motherboard: HP zv6000 Laptop
Video Card: ATI Radeon
Remote: MCE
TV: Toshiba 37" 1080p
TV - HTPC Connection: VGA

 

[MdFolter]

Kris404: you should have a look at this thread:
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/improvement-suggestions-46/mp-looks-frozen-large-directories-41700/

This really works, it is fast but.... your MP3's must be well tagged of course!

regards
Marcel

 

[Kris404]

Marcel,

I deleted 'group' & '1' from the artist 'Music View', still doesn't work. MP still tries to read the files' tags.

Wish this worked just like the old Meedio, read the filename and play instead of adding the tags to the database.

Kris

 

[hwahrmann]

untick the option "Use ID3 tags / autoadd file to music database" found in first tab of Music -> Plaer settings.
see if that works.

 

[Kris404]

hwahrmann,

That worked. So obvious, I must be blind missing this option.

Thank you very much.

Kris