[Bug 108573] Re: amarok uses 100% CPU for 60sec at startup in gnome

[Andrew Ash]

I posed this question on the Amarok development mailing list and got
this response from Mark Kretschmann, a lead developer of Amarok.
Basically, Amarok isn't meant to be used for huge playlists like this,
so he recommends not doing it :)

Therefore, I'm closing the bug.  If you're looking for a player to
manipulate a huge playlist, then you should be using a player more like
XMMS.  I think you're trying to fit a square a peg into a round hole!

Thanks for the report.

On 4/27/07, Mark Kretschmann <markey at web.de> wrote:
> On Friday 27 April 2007, Andrew Ash wrote:
> > A ubuntu user [1] is having problems with Amarok taking a long time
> > (60sec) to startup when having a rather large playlist already open
> > (~4400 files).  The user found that decreasing the playlist size
> > directly corresponds with the time taken on startup.  I was wondering
> > if there was any work being done to optimize Amarok in this respect
> > recently.
> 
> Well yes. Basically, don't do this. Amarok was never meant to be used this
> way. Use smaller playlists and the rich features of the collection interface.
> 
> Do we plan to improve Amarok's performance with giant playlists? Not really.
> In fact Amarok2 is being designed in such a way as to discourage this misuse
> right from the start. The playlist will occupy muss less screen space and
> should work best with less than 100 tracks.
> 
> Not to sound like a total asshole, I'll explain the reasoning behind this
> move ;) Amarok1 has its roots in a XMMS like design: There is no collection,
> but instead the user loads the whole collection into one playlist. Later on
> we've added the collection, which quickly became Amarok's center. Still, the
> GUI layout of Amarok1 (huge playlist area) suggests that it works like a XMMS
> class player, which it is really not meant to be. So we're going to correct
> this in Amarok2. The player is no longer playlist centered, but rather
> information centered. The playlist is just one tool for organizing your
> music.
> 
> --
> Mark

** Changed in: amarok (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: Andrew Ash => (unassigned)
       Status: Needs Info => Rejected

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amarok uses 100% CPU for 60sec at startup in gnome
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