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Title: How many files can JRiver handle?
Post by: zenpmd on October 15, 2015, 11:57:12 am

I have an i7 processors and 16gb of RAM. I now 51,000 tracks in it. But its very slow.

Title: Re: How many files can JRiver handle?
Post by: JimH on October 15, 2015, 12:04:15 pm

It isn't MC.  Many users have more than 100,000 files, some more than 500,000.

Antivirus?

Network?

More details might help.

Title: Re: How many files can JRiver handle?
Post by: zenpmd on October 15, 2015, 02:14:54 pm

I should have been more specific, I mean when I double click in play doctor to play everything at random

Title: Re: How many files can JRiver handle?
Post by: ~OHM~ on October 16, 2015, 04:09:50 pm

Jim's answer stands...I have over 285,000 files on a w7 dual core 4g memory and it is very snappy :)

Title: Re: How many files can JRiver handle?
Post by: JimH on October 16, 2015, 05:30:40 pm

I wouldn't use Play Doctor to play everything.  Just use a normal play and shuffle it.

Title: Re: How many files can JRiver handle?
Post by: blgentry on October 16, 2015, 05:59:32 pm

Jim makes a very good point.  You can easily add your whole library, or a subset of it to Playing Now, then "reshuffle" the Playing Now list to randomize it.  Player > Shuffle > Reshuffle .  Or <control>-R .

There are also much better ways to listen to a big collection than "full random".  You can make automatic mixes based on genres, years, etc.  What's interesting is MC can make these as smartlists, but the lists are different every time you select them!  The "mix" modifier and the "limit" modifier can be used to produce really interesting results.

See here for some examples of using mix:

http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Smartlists#Using_the_Search_Language

Brian.