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Title: Media Center 10.0.31 takes 1 minute to Load
Post by: robertc65 on January 10, 2004, 02:50:49 pm

For some reason when I start Media Center it takes almost a full minute to load. I see an hour glass while it's trying to load and then at about the 50 second mark the Media Center begins to appear very slowly and once fully displayed is very sluggish for about 10 seconds. After that it runs just fine. I had imported about 5000 photos and 2 thousand songs. Thinking the database may be having trouble with so many files I removed them all but I'm still having the load problem. Has anyone else seen this before I try a reinstall of Media Center?

Title: Re:Media Center 10.0.31 takes 1 minute to Load
Post by: KingSparta on January 10, 2004, 04:51:12 pm

it also depends if your using this on a very slow CPU

Mine Takes 24 Seconds On A 3.06 Ghz computer

With A Database (mediafiles.jmd) that is 147Megs in size (50,000+ files)

I Am Not Sure If That Is Too Long Or Not To Not Only Load The File But Also The Database



Media Center Registered 10.0.31 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows XP  Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 3041 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 167 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1276 / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1233 (xpsp2.030604-1804) / wnaspi32.dll: 4.71 (0001) , ASPI for Win32 (95/NT) DLL, Copyright © 1989-2002 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: 4.71 (0001)

Ripping /   Drive J:   Copy mode:Normal   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
  Drive K:   Copy mode:Normal   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
  Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: Yes /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
  Eject after ripping: No /  Play sound after ripping: No  

Burning /  Drive J: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GMA-4020B   Addr: 1:0:0  Speed:12  MaxSpeed:12  BurnProof:Yes
  Drive K: HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8481B    Addr: 1:1:0  Speed:48  MaxSpeed:48  BurnProof:Yes
  Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: Yes
  Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

Title: Re:Media Center 10.0.31 takes 1 minute to Load
Post by: dragyn on January 10, 2004, 04:59:00 pm

Mine takes about 15secs to load and about a 1/2 sec to crash. Database is about 50MB, 200027 files.

Title: Re:Media Center 10.0.31 takes 1 minute to Load
Post by: robertc65 on January 11, 2004, 12:23:08 am

My System has an Athlon 1700 overclocked to just over 2100 with 512 MB of RAM.

So is it safe to assume that the larger your Library the longer it wil take to load. Does Media Center index the database when you start it or something and if so is there a way to disable it.

Rob

Title: Re:Media Center 10.0.31 takes 1 minute to Load
Post by: Uwe on January 11, 2004, 05:05:27 am

Rob,
uninstalj MC and after that reinstall it. That helped me. I had the same problem with a 800 MHz CPU but with MC 9.xxx some times ago.
Just try it.

Uwe

Title: Re:Media Center 10.0.31 takes 1 minute to Load
Post by: KingSparta on January 11, 2004, 07:09:28 am

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Does Media Center index the database when you start it or something

don't know don't think so i think it just loads the whole thing in the Dbase into memory

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and if so is there a way to disable it.

no