I have always thought MC spotlight is fantastic idea, but I have had a recurring issue ever since it was introduced a couple years ago.
Sometimes MC will load the artist data within a couple seconds, but way too often it takes over 30 seconds to a minute. In addition, instead of showing every album by an artist, it shows only what I have in my personal collection. The behavior change always seems to occur right after an update. Since I don't use Spotlight regularly due to this issue, I'm not positive if the good/bad behavior toggles with every update, but I have noticed more than once that if it was working correctly (i.e., loads artist data fast and shows every album by a given artist), right after I apply a new MC update, the undesired behavior returns.
Does anybody else experience this? If not, does anybody have any idea as to what might cause it? I do use VPN which can certainly be a culprit at times. That said, when spotlight is working well, it seems to work well whether VPN is on or off. Same is true if Spotlight is working poorly - VPN status is irrelevant. The behavior does not improve when I turn it off.
I would love to use this great MC feature, but as it is, it is just not usable as the poor/slow behavior seems to be more common than Spotlight performing well - at least when I decide to check on it. Any thoughts for solutions would be greatly appreciated.