Long playlist causes long startup

[Rich]

On 2007.04.28. 00:33, 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.

as you already found out, the short answer is "don't do that" :)
as it's not always easy for a user coming from winamp/xmms to do that 
efficiently, i would suggest taking a look at a quick introduction to 
some features that would help to get rid of huge playlists.

basically combining smart and dynamic playlists you can have a better 
functionality than using single huge playlist - and get speed 
improvements, too :)
http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Dynamic_Playlist_Walkthrough

> I've been watching this mailing list for a while now and haven't seen
> any mention of work being done to improve startup time for a while.
> The SQLite update seems like it will improve speed with the database,
> but I don't think that translates into speed with playlists.
> 
> Is there any developments being made on this front that will appear in
> the future? I was wondering more specifically if there were going to
> be any proposed speed optimizations in the coming Amarok 1.4.6.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Andrew Ash
-- 
  Rich