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bluedy1:
I use a macbook pro 2011 with 16gb of memory and SSD. My music is located on a Drobo (20TB) where I have more than 260.000 tracks. After 30 minutes of playing music the fan becomes noisy and unstoppable and quite clearly the computer cannot cope with MC. I previously had only 8gb of memory. I thought 16gb would make a difference, it does not. I had read that MC could cope with large libraries, apparently it cannot.
Any advice? thanks

Awesome Donkey:
My guess is auto import, and/or thumbnail building, and/or analyze audio is running in the background which is causing resource usage to spike (hence the noisy fan). Adding additional memory wouldn't do anything to help fix this.

Try reading this topic and follow Brian's steps in this post: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=105699.msg735473#msg735473

dfortney:
When I added my music and created my library in MC it went through a number of processing steps such as analyzing the audio, pulling the album art, etc. and this process does indeed take a long time and kick the fan on overdrive.  I only have around 30k tracks and it took overnight to run so you should maybe expect it to take a few days with a decent internet connection.  If it gets interrupted during the process it seems to not be able to recover (for example if the computer decides to go to sleep) so be sure to use a program like Caffeine and be sure it keeps your computer awake the entire time.  Maybe set it up and then take a short vacation ;)

blgentry:

--- Quote from: bluedy1 on July 03, 2016, 12:05:29 pm ---After 30 minutes of playing music the fan becomes noisy and unstoppable and quite clearly the computer cannot cope with MC.

--- End quote ---

What the others said is definitely worth checking out.  Your problem could easily be related to background processing of a large collection.

You should also know that the 2011 MBPs are known for having a heat issue with the CPU.  There was a class action lawsuit and Apple extended a recall program:

https://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro-videoissues/

The symptoms that they cover have to do with video failures.  My MBP had a severe video issue and I sent it in for repair.  Weird stuff happened and they ended up replacing the main board in the computer.  When I got it back I noticed something miraculous:  The fans were no longer running all the time with small loads.  Before the repair, the fans would kick on with a 15 to 20% load on the CPU and go pretty crazy at seemingly full speed until I stopped processes consuming CPU.  After the repair, the computer's fans didn't run nearly as often.  They still kick on, but much less frequently and they don't spin to top speed as often or as fast.

Is your computer affected by the story I just told?  Maybe, maybe not.  It's just some information for you to consider.

Brian.

MrBiff:
MC on Mac is very slow to import.  It seems to create many addition heavy process to handle import.

Here is video to show import of 62 very small mp4 files.  All analysis and look ups are disable.  Still it takes a painful 1 minute.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/g5wwxxt2hgl5z6d/slow_import.mp4?dl=0

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