INTERACT FORUM

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Spinning beachballs  (Read 1639 times)

B17NNS

  • Junior Woodchuck
  • **
  • Posts: 63
Spinning beachballs
« on: February 23, 2018, 07:21:33 am »
Seeing these more and more. Nearly every operation/click results in a spinning ball.

Almost to the point of MC being unusable at the moment.

When the spinning ball stops sometimes the main screen completely disappears from view and I'm forced to change view to Mini View and then double click to get it back.

I did notice this increase when I moved my files from a USB HDD to a NAS but it's gotten progressively worse this week.

Doesn't matter what I'm outputting too, DNLA or local player.

Anyone else suffering with this? I've restarted the Mac, restarted the NAS. Everything is linked via gigabit ethernet.
Logged

churchmouse

  • Recent member
  • *
  • Posts: 26
Re: Spinning beachballs
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2018, 07:36:50 am »
My experience has been that MC has always been far more susceptible to this then any other piece of software I have run on a Mac.  It seems even worse with its Media Server running in the background.

I have no answer.  My avoidance behaviour is:

1. Limit as much as one can making changes in MC.
2. Use other software for certain things e.g. I now use Yate to do all my metadata changes, and control JRiver as much as possible using a tablet.
3. If I have to go in to MC, I close down any other applications I may have running on the Mac - precious few actually.

Sorry this is not a particularly helpful reply, but I share your pain.
Logged

JimH

  • Administrator
  • Citizen of the Universe
  • *****
  • Posts: 72439
  • Where did I put my teeth?
Re: Spinning beachballs
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2018, 08:09:38 am »
What version are you using?
Logged

Awesome Donkey

  • Administrator
  • Citizen of the Universe
  • *****
  • Posts: 7805
  • Autumn shade...
Re: Spinning beachballs
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2018, 08:19:34 am »
As a test you could try local files to see if it helps any (and to eliminate the NAS/network as the possible reason, which even with gigabit it *could* still be an issue).

I don't see any spinning beachball issues at all when playing back files locally (I don't use a NAS/network share or anything like that).

So many potential factors here.
Logged
I don't work for JRiver... I help keep the forums safe from "male enhancements" and other sources of sketchy pharmaceuticals.

Windows 11 24H2 Update 64-bit + Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole 64-bit | Windows 11 24H2 Update 64-bit (Intel N305 Fanless NUC 16GB RAM/500GB M.2 NVMe SSD)
JRiver Media Center 33 (Windows + Linux) | iFi ZEN DAC 3 | JBL 306P MkII Studio Monitors | Audio-Technica ATH-M50x Headphones

B17NNS

  • Junior Woodchuck
  • **
  • Posts: 63
Re: Spinning beachballs
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2018, 08:36:35 am »
Quote from: JimH on February 23, 2018, 08:09:38 am
What version are you using?

OS 10.12.6

MC 23 (did the last update that presented itself).

I'll try with the library on a USB HDD to see if it's a network issue.
Logged

B17NNS

  • Junior Woodchuck
  • **
  • Posts: 63
Re: Spinning beachballs
« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2018, 08:52:26 am »
Switched library to my backup USB drive. Working perfectly.

Obviously some sort of network related issue.

Is there a preferred method of connecting to a NAS with MC? It's a synology.
Logged

JimH

  • Administrator
  • Citizen of the Universe
  • *****
  • Posts: 72439
  • Where did I put my teeth?
Re: Spinning beachballs
« Reply #6 on: February 23, 2018, 09:33:34 am »
The version of MC will look something like this:  23.0.92.  The last part is the build and it sometimes matters.

There is nothing specific you need to do for network drives.  Maybe MC was set to import from a drive that wasn't there.
Logged

B17NNS

  • Junior Woodchuck
  • **
  • Posts: 63
Re: Spinning beachballs
« Reply #7 on: February 23, 2018, 10:29:05 am »
Version is 23.0.103

It could see the files and play them. Everything just ground to a halt. Pretty much every operation or click resulted in a spinning ball of doom.

Just fired up iTunes and that's playing fine from the NAS. As is Plex.

JRiver functioning perfectly from USB HDD.

It is a bottom of the range Synology so maybe that is a bottleneck of sorts.
Logged

JimH

  • Administrator
  • Citizen of the Universe
  • *****
  • Posts: 72439
  • Where did I put my teeth?
Re: Spinning beachballs
« Reply #8 on: February 23, 2018, 10:42:35 am »
Turn off auto-import and thumbnailing.

Check your auto-import settings.
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »