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MC 29 routinely freezes when playing new files

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blgentry:
I find it suspicious that you have this unusual problem and you just happen to have all of your files in a "cloud" created folder.

I would suggest that you copy half a dozen albums out of there into your Music folder.  Make a new MC database and import just those few albums.  Then play them for a while and see if you get a freeze.  If you do, then my suspicion is probably wrong.  If there are no freezes then that might indicate the source of the problem.

Perhaps someone else has other ideas to try.

Brian.

Dawgincontrol:
I'm thinking it is what's causing the buffering.

Copy some folders/albums to a different folder on your computer (ie C:\Music), set up MC to look there and test them. 

If that works, you can still keep your back-ups on the "Google Drive.

Basically agree with bigentry above.

zybex:

--- Quote from: Tango-DJ on November 30, 2022, 12:04:00 am ---Sorry for the delay. Yes, the files are local—they are just uploaded to Google Drive for backup purposes.

--- End quote ---

Files in Google Drive are not assured to be locally materialized in the default "streaming mode" config. They are fetched to your local PC on demand, and "emptied" when unused for some time. You still see the filename and full file size, but there's actually nothing there until an app tries to read it. This causes your buffering issues (and likely the import issues on the other thread). This feature is meant to allow you to have hundreds of GB in the folder while actually not taking much space in your drive.

On the Windows version of Google Drive you can set it to "mirror mode" where all files are locally materialized. You may need a larger disk for that, but it should work. After enabling that give it some time to actually pull all files, check the progress status.

Tango-DJ:

--- Quote ---Files in Google Drive are not assured to be locally materialized in the default "streaming mode" config. They are fetched to your local PC on demand, and "emptied" when unused for some time.
--- End quote ---

I understand that, but I am not using the "streaming mode" config. As noted above, the files are locally stored.

Although I was reasonably confident this would not solve the issue, I chose to temporarily uninstall Google Drive. Since the 'Google Drive' folder is an ordinary directory in my file system, the only thing special about it is that it is watched by the Google Drive app and synchronized with a remote copy whenever the local file changes. With that app gone, the 'Google Drive' folder is exactly like any other folder. Alas, the problem persists: the second file I tried to play triggered the "buffering..." problem.

zybex:
Make sure you reboot to unload the GDrive driver.

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