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Windows => Third Party Plug-ins, Programs, and Skins => Topic started by: mwgilbert on May 31, 2003, 08:05:21 am

Title: Album View issue loading database
Post by: mwgilbert on May 31, 2003, 08:05:21 am

The latest Album View is working great for me, but I have one question about it.

I have almost 2000 albums in my database, by way of indicating scale. If I start MC with AV as the last/recent view, AND the box for loading the last used DB is checked, it takes a long >3 mins time to load. If I start MC with AV as the last/recent view, AND the box for loading the last used DB is NOT checked, and then I manually load the same DB, it loads almost instantly.

Any ideas? Thanks.

Title: Re: Album View issue loading database
Post by: RhinoBanga on May 31, 2003, 11:30:27 pm

Can you post the results from the logview so I can see exactly what the time difference is.

Title: Re: Album View issue loading database
Post by: mwgilbert on June 01, 2003, 12:21:12 pm

After rebuilding the MC library, and then rebuilding the AV database, the problem seems to have gone away. Another one for the "go figure" dept. Thanks for being available to respond, though.

Title: Re: Album View issue loading database
Post by: mwgilbert on June 02, 2003, 08:02:58 am

Perhaps I spoke too soon.

Log from auto load:
Time      Progress      Description      
00:00.000             Loading Database
00:00.621                 Reading header information
00:00.621      100%          Reading tracks - 18864
00:00.991      100%          Reading albums - 1923
00:01.141      100%          Reading artists - 882
00:01.212                 Loading treeview
00:02.433                 Sorting
00:02.814                 Loading Artwork - C:\Documents and Settings\mgilbert.OIT\Application Data\Album View 2.0\Cache\AlbumView.av2.cache
01:48.906                 Finished
01:50.218             Finished

Log from manual load, same DB:
Time      Progress      Description      
00:00.000             Loading Database
00:00.090                 Reading header information
00:00.100      100%          Reading tracks - 18864
00:00.411      100%          Reading albums - 1923
00:00.541      100%          Reading artists - 882
00:00.621                 Loading treeview
00:01.512                 Sorting
00:01.853                 Loading Artwork - C:\Documents and Settings\mgilbert.OIT\Application Data\Album View 2.0\Cache\AlbumView.av2.cache
00:21.982                 Finished
00:22.392             Finished

What might account for the difference?

Title: Re: Album View issue loading database
Post by: RhinoBanga on June 02, 2003, 10:19:12 am

Your OS cache of the file.

On my machine reading 500 artwork covers it takes 8 seconds on the first load then 1 second all subsequent loads.

You should try using AV without the cache to see if it's more responsive for you.

Go to options/artwork and uncheck "Cache artwork" and "Use high resolution sampling ...".



I really must make some time and refactor that whole section of AV  :-/