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[benn600]

I'm wondering what may be the cause for such a slowdown in MC on my computer...and surprisingly enough, some of our other computers.  For example, when I have panes open with my [Ben's Rating] field and I have located an album, clicking an item (such as 5) takes 3-4 seconds to update!  I know MC is basically instantaneous in this regard, but not for me!

Could it be Vista?  Too little memory?  Network access related?  Thumbnail building?  Flac related?  Me related?

lol.  I format our household computers every summer and I'm fixing to revert to XP on this machine since Vista is a joke...great, ~$160 out the window.

Running 1.86 GHz Core 2 with 1GB ram

[benn600]

More info...

This is the part I don't understand.  I just created a new library, on C:, and imported a ton of mp3's from my OLD archived library.  I used to use iTunes (ending around July 2006) until I switched to Media Center.  I was smart enough to save my old collection of MP3's even though I switched to 100% FLAC.  The old collection was not crystal clear and had many errors, incomplete data, and other issues.  But the point is that with this collection, MC is literally instantaneous.  Clicking one of those pane items comes up in well under 1 second.

Just wondering if it might be all the network access, which could partly be due to Vista's horrible access (network wise)...that makes me think, though.  My other XP computers, are also slow with MC but reasonably fast computers.  That shouldn't be network related since XP doesn't have that issue.  Any explanations would be greatly appreciated.

I'll be honest: I really like the instantaneous MC thing...I'd like my FLAC music to have that...

Although this quick create library has 8K MP3's and that's it.  My other collection had 13K FLAC with lots of images and video totaling 30K items.

[MerlinWerks]

Have you tried switching to the Windows "Classic" interface 

[ThoBar]

Have you tried switching to the Windows "Classic" interface 

ROFL, Nice cross-reference!

Anyhoo, as to the topic, if you suspect a network issue, without knowing your network setup and gear, I would suggest trying to force your equipment to different duplex settings (where possible, I know a lot of Gb NICs dont allow forcing duplex). I have noticed huge variations in performance in particular types of network traffic by adjusting the duplex. Often a network that can transfer large files quickly is incapable of deal with many small files/requests.

Don't assume anything when it comes to the network is my general rule. Just because it appears to be working fine, doesnt mean it is.

Of course, this may be of absoutely no help at all, but bears consideration.

C.

[GHammer]

Try this:

Anyone tried this to see if it takes care of your network copying problems?

Code: [Select]

netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
You need to execute the command from an elevated command window (Run as Administrator)

Also, Vista has additional options for hard drives. Open the properties of the physical device, look at policies. There is an option (at least on my SATA drives) for additional speed up.

[benn600]

Have you tried switching to the Windows "Classic" interface  Grin

lol.  I believe that is a cross-thread-reference.  Good timing I guess.

When the library database is on C:, that helps, but the media files are also on C.  I will try the two varied schemes:

Library on C, media on network
Library on network, media on C

I'll see if I notice anything.