Long playlist causes long startup

[Andrew Ash]

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
>

Wow, thanks for the quick response, Mark!  I'll let Janne know that
and close that particular report.  Responses like that are what I like
about Amarok developers.

Andrew