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Choppy Album View
k.e.:
I have tried Audirvana 3+ yesterday. It's incredible how smooth the experience is. The UI looks tons better than JRiver's and browsing album art feels like 120 Hz opposed to 12 Hz on MC23. When using the latter I feel like I am running Windows software through Wine emulator on Linux...
But unfortunately Audirvana is not even close to Media Center's feature list because it thinks bad about DSP: no (parametric) EQ, no crossfeed, no convolution, not even listening tests, ... basically nothing that let's you experiment with audio and I think that is also an important part of audiophile listening. Whole bunch of marketing for a ridiculous price. Shame.
I also came across the open-source Kodi but it was not what I think it would be. So I continued my search and I couldn't find any software that comes close to MC, unfortunately.
--- Quote from: RoderickGI on August 08, 2017, 09:11:50 pm ---Before making your final judgement you really should check under Help > System Info... to check if all thumbnails have been built, and if any background processes are still running, since this is a new installation.
--- End quote ---
Thumbnails built: 100%
Audio analyzed: 100%
Background tools running: No tools currently running.
It's nice to hear that JRiver is still working on improvements. But let's be honest here, MC23 has zero new features over MC22, or am I missing something? An internet radio channel called Kiss - that's what JRiver charges 27$ for? So when the Mac improvements hit, I will be paying 50 $ for what looks like a beta program and a year later I can pay another 27 $ without new features just because JRiver thinks they need to charge users every year. What if MC24 has zero new features (a new radio called Queen) but MC25 brings the Mac improvements. I can't upgrade from MC23 so I have to pay a 2x 50 $ or 50 +27 +27 to stay up to date... They could just as well start a subscription plan for 5 $/month. But even then we wouldn't even know if they ever fix the Win98'esque UI.
Sorry for the rant. I was hoping there would be an easy fix to my problem or box I forgot to tick for hardware acceleration or something. I didn't expect to have to live with the lag.
JimH:
What you're seeing is not normal. It would be better to concentrate on finding the cause.
Something related to screen or disc is not delivering what it should.
Are the media files local? If not, try a library of only local files.
What file types?
Awesome Donkey:
Honestly? The scrolling (and the way fonts look all jaggy in non-Retina) in MC for Mac is the worst compared to MC for Windows and Linux. It's very choppy even when scrolling down a large list in the Panes view (so I can imagine how it's like for album view). I have a somewhat workaround for speed by increasing the system scrolling speed, but yeah, it's still pretty choppy and slow compared to Windows and Linux. I'm not sure if it inherits the system settings for scrolling or not - if it does, IMO, this might be the cause of this and it really should use its own instead.
As for fonts, yeah, they're pretty bad and jaggy when using non-Retina. The second you enable Retina mode for a supported skin, fonts look AMAZING. If it's possible to get the way the fonts look in Retina mode to look like that in non-Retina, that'd be absolutely great and much appreciated. It's worth noting that in my experience when you enable Retina mode, scrolling performance and speed actually become worse than it does in non-Retina (which IMO is already noticeably bad compared to Windows/Linux).
If there was two things on my immediate wishlist for MC for Mac, it'd be improvements (or an overhaul) to scrolling performance, speed and smoothness along with better looking fonts in non-Retina mode (e.g. some Anti-Aliasing would be nice!).
Sassi:
I have this same problem. I am running on MacBook Pro 13" Touch Bar 2016.
It helps to make the window smaller by dragging from one corner so that fewer album covers are shown. (Not from the album art scaling slider setting on the upper right corner) That makes the scrolling much more fluid. I initially thought it might be because my album art is in very large files scanned by me. We are talking about 3000x3000 pixels in jpeg format. Could this cause it?
Other programs like Tidal work very smoothly while showing similar album art etc.
The theater view is absolutely fluid and smooth though with the same artwork. I would also like to find a "fix" for this.
Thanks! I love MC23 and would not think of using any other program. 8)
By the way, could a real full screen option be added to MC23, please.
Sassi:
To add to previous message. Using JRemote all the album artwork scroll up and down very smoothly on my iPad 2017. The sluggish movement is only in the Mac version of MC23 in the normal album views. It was the same also on MC22. ?
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