My Music list is very slugging (1 Viewer)

[ltfearme]

TV-Server Version:
MediaPortal Version: 0.2.3.0 + svn 2007-12-28
MediaPortal Skin: SpinSafe Revolve
Windows Version: WinXP SP2
CPU Type: Intel E6600 Core 2 Duo
HDD: 500GB Western Digital
Memory: 2GB Corsair 5400C4
Motherboard: Intel DG965OT
Motherboard Chipset: Intel 965
Motherboard Bios:
Video Card: Asus 8600GT Silent
Video Card Driver:
Sound Card: Intel HD
Sound Card AC3: Optical Out
Sound Card Driver:
MPEG2 Video Codec: ffdshow
MPEG2 Audio Codec: ffdshow
Satelite/CableTV Provider:
HTPC Case: Antec Fusion
Cooling:
Power Supply: Antec 550W
Remote: Harmony 360
TV: Sony Bravia 46X2000
TV - HTPC Connection: HDMI

Hi, I have recently starting using My Music. I currently have 297 Music Folders and find that the UI is very slugging when transitioning to the next page in any view! Im not using a database view, I use icons and big icons for my presentation with album art coming from a folder.jpg in every folder.

Is this a limitation with Media Portal I, I have tested this on several PCs and is not very good. I have the same list in my XBOX using XBMC and its silky smooth. I also tried the UNIX version and was also silky smooth.

Is this something known and will be resolved? As you can see my Hardware is very fast relative to the xbox's. I can do some performance counters in perfmon if that will help the developers. I suspect CPU usage is very high when doing this but have not confirmed on my main HTPC only my development box.

I have tested using xface and resolve skins to rule the skins out. Machine CPUs tested on: (4400X2,E6600,1.8ghzCentrino)



Cheers
Damien

 

[ronilse]

Hi,
If the music it's located on another computer it will be slow when not using db, you should try to scan them to db & test, if it's still slow attach your mediaportal.log to your post..

Regards
Roy

 

[ltfearme]

I prefer not to use the database view as it would take forever for me to correct my id3 tags .

I use the local drive for my music on my dev pc, and network share for the other pc's (gigabit network).
Note: the same setup exists for my xbox as well without this issue.

I have attached the logs, from my dev pc which has the local drive for the music.

I noticed 50% cpu usage on a dual core when scrolling through the list. I will test title database view for the sake of it but may take a while to setup. I guess I can test with what ever it can pick up initially (been meaning to fix up my music tags for ages).

Cheers,
Damien

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Mediamonkey springs to mind for fixing tags.

Good luck with that one, especially if there are a lot.