Bug 56268

Summary:	random play on really large hayes playlists takes forever
Product:	[Unmaintained] noatun	Reporter:	Michael Bauer <Michael>
Component:	hayes	Assignee:	Multimedia Bugs <multimedia-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Michael Bauer 2003-03-23 12:09:15 UTC

Version:           unknown (using KDE 3.1.1)
Installed from:    Gentoo
Compiler:          gcc version 3.2.2
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.20-gentoo-r1

Hi,
i have a really large mp3 collection (~50 Gigabyte) mounted via nfs. Hayes is the perfect solution to handling these files, but when doing a random play on the whole collection CPU load goes to 100% and all noatun windows freeze. 
I think the problem is that in random mode noatun starts to scan all available files, which naturally takes a very long time for such a large collection. (i killed noatun after waiting for about 10 minutes...) The network speed should not be the problem, the server is connected via switched fullduplex 100MBit.
So i am not sure if theres a simple solution. Either changing the "randomize" algorithm or maybe as a interim solution starting another thread that collects the info to at least prevent the GUI from freezing?

Maybe its just a bad idea after all to start a random play on 50 Gigs of data ;-) but i just wanted to inform you there are potential problems regarding the randm play...

Anyway, thanks for that great product! Beeing a longtime xmms-user i actually only started using Noatun when i recognized the impressive Hayes playlist. That really made my day ;-)

thanks
Michael

Comment 1 Stephan Binner 2003-03-23 12:21:51 UTC

*** Bug 56269 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Neil Stevens 2003-03-23 13:10:35 UTC

Hayes version number?

Comment 3 Michael Bauer 2003-03-23 18:18:24 UTC

mike@shuttle mike $ emerge -s hayes 
Searching... 
[ Results for search key : hayes ] 
[ Applications found : 1 ] 
 
*  media-plugins/hayes 
      Latest version available: 1.1.5 
      Latest version installed: 1.1.5 
      Size of downloaded files: 319 kB 
      Homepage:    http://www.freekde.org/neil/hayes/ 
      Description: A filesystem-based Playlist for Noatun 2.0

Comment 4 Neil Stevens 2003-03-24 00:30:22 UTC

Positively ancient version.  The shuffle system's been rewritten since then. :-)

Comment 5 Michael Bauer 2003-03-24 19:30:44 UTC

Okay, then its time to update ;-) 
 
Again, thanks for your work...