Ipod slowness

[unnamedrambler at gmail.com]

On 1/12/09, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org> wrote:
>> Hey xevix,
>> It seems that on Amarok startup, if there are any playlist tracks that
>> are from the ipod, instead of reading the ipod db, the actual file
>> metadata is read and is waaay slow. This is especially the case if you
>> have a few thousand ipod tracks in the playlist. Could you please take
>> a look at this?
>
> We have a similar issue with service tracks, e.g. from Ampache. For
> each item in the playlist trackForUrl() is called, which can easily
> make Amarok take several minutes to start with a big playlist.
>
> I don't know if these two issues are directly related. For the issue I
> mentioned, someone (Casey I think) was working on a solution. A status
> update on that would be nice.
>

Indeed. I did some work on making trackForUrl async, however it
doesn't seem to work as intended. I will attempt to resolve this once
and for all at campkde.

Casey