| Summary: | Startup extremely laggy and slow due to long library scan | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] Elisa | Reporter: | Danny Medina <lyrixcaz> |
| Component: | baloo | Assignee: | Matthieu Gallien <matthieu_gallien> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | major | CC: | bugseforuns, local10, nate, trmdi |
| Priority: | VHI | Keywords: | usability |
| Version First Reported In: | 22.04.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | openSUSE | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
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This is how it looks when you try to use it upon launching..
This is how it looks when you try to use it upon launching. |
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Created attachment 148749 [details]
This is how it looks when you try to use it upon launching.
This is how it looks when you try to use it upon launching..
Yeah, can confirm. Does it scan whenever it is launched? Shouldn't it only scan on the first launch? It has to re-scan to find any music you've added since it was last launched. It shouldn't be so slow and intrusive, though. My music library has thousands of files stored in a slow and almost full hard disk, and I rarely add/remove files to/from it. Baloo is disabled and the scan that Elisa does every time it starts makes my system slower and barely usable. I think we should have an option to disable automatic scan when Elisa starts. (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #6) > See https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/elisa/-/merge_requests/256 for that. it was merged. *** Bug 457510 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |
Created attachment 148748 [details] This is how it looks when you try to use it upon launching.. SUMMARY *** Elisa conducts a startup scan [which in my opinion should be in the options to toggle on/off] I have alot of music and i find myself having to wait almost a minute to actually operate the UI otherwise there will be alot of UI latency and sluggishness. I tried setting elisa to use direct scanning to see if the issue remained but it still does it. *** STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. close and quit Elisa 2. launch elisa 3. behold OBSERVED RESULT Sluggishnes, click delays, top-right notification in elisa says "Scanning music..." for somewhat of a long time until it finishes. EXPECTED RESULT The UI is responsive after it finished scanning for music.. this happens every single time elisa is launched. Naturally there would be some UI sluggishness because its scanning, but it doesnt need to scan every single time i launch it, it hurts the experience. Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20220509 KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.93.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.17.5-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i5-8350U CPU @ 1.70GHz Memory: 31.1 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 620 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Nothing else pertaining to this but, as an addition, the music player clementine has the option to allow you to continue playing from the track you left off and is quick and responsive and allows you to conduct on demand scanning to not slow things down. Elisa should be able to do the same indeed, but this scanning issue is preventing that from happening [I think if you have alot of music in your home folder this happens since it scans all music upon startup]