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Dermbrian:

--- Quote from: Chris on March 13, 2005, 02:47:57 pm ---
AMD Athlon 64 2800+ on XP.  But 8 minutes is still awful long.  Are your songs encoded at a really high bit rate, making the files large?  My files average about 3.5 MB each.  If you have huge remixes, indexing is gonna be ugly.  I wonder if this might be a ME thing...


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My songs are encoded at a really high bit rate.  I've used the -alt -preset -extreme switches when encoding them from LP's, so they're very high variable bit rate.

Average file size for normal length singles is probably 6 - 7 mb.  So you've probably nailed the reason mine takes longer. 

Still, it's rare to have to start building the database from scratch.  The program starts nice and quickly on subsequent runs, unlike Windows Media Playter, RealPlayer, and similar bloatware.

Brian

 

Crazy Cooter:
Instead of loading only part of a song and stuff, is it possible to activate a database update with a button?  Kind of like an admin button thing?  That way the database doesn't need to be touched except when "told" to.

Chris:

--- Quote from: Crazy Cooter on March 13, 2005, 08:07:35 pm ---Instead of loading only part of a song and stuff, is it possible to activate a database update with a button?
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Crazy Cooter:
If I could disable the update in the ini file, and have only the button update, it would be perfect.  That should almost eliminate loading time too, you could use the "old" database until you actually added something.  Then push the button before you go to bed and it could take 8 hours if it had to to update the info.  Then it would be back to "instant on" status using the "new" database.

Plus it would be cool for networks like you said.  Hit the button, grab a soda, everything is updated.  No reboot required. ;)

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