[mythtv-users] MythMusic delays

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Sat Apr 12 14:55:35 UTC 2003


On Saturday 12 April 2003 10:47 am, RJV wrote:
> I'm running mythmusic, and functionally, it works fine.  However, I have
> two problems with irritating delays.
>
> My system is an AMD 1000+ with 512 RAM and an SBLive.  It accesses my music
> archive (180 GBs) via NFS mount.
>
> When I first loaded it, I left it be for about 4 hours for it to
> categorize all the songs.  I could watch it go through the directories on
> console, and life was good.
>
> However, now, when I select MythMusic from the MythFrontend module, I get
> about a 2 minute delay before the SelectMusic/PlayMusic/ImportCD comes up.
> If I switch to console, I see that it is categorizing the same few songs
> that don't have id3 tags.  So - the delay is that MythMusic is attempting
> to add these to the database each time I load MythMusic.  It would be nice
> if I could find a fix for this.
>
> The second delay that I'm having is once into MythMusic, when I select the
> SelectMusic option, I get an approximate 1 minute delay before the select
> music screen comes up.  This is a more tolerable delay, but it would be
> nice if it wasn't there.
>
> Function wise, I also think MythMusic should have a "clear playlist"
> option in addition to the edit playlist option.  Currently, if you build a
> huge playlist, you have to go and find all the songs and deselect them.

I believe the version currently in CVS addresses basically all of your issues.

Isaac


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