Ipod slowness

[Alejandro Wainzinger]

So are these issues related then?  I'm not sure the Collection has
control over what the playlist does here, since no part of the
IpodCollection code is reading metadata directly from the file.

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:28 PM,  <unnamedrambler at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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