Large Playlist (16625 entries) gets very slow usingn mysql

[Siegfried Wolkenstein]

Ok. Thank you. I can see the advantage of dynamic playlists already.

Is there an option to play a song immediately after one has searched for it in 
the collection and hits enter? Or setting the found songs to be queued?

On Friday 11 July 2008 12:46:06 Nikolaj Hald Nielsen wrote:
> > Ok. But why can't one make huge playlists faster? It shouldn't be a
> > problem.
>
> Because the internal structure of Amarok 1 was never meant for this
> usecase. Amarok 1 needs to keep a lot of data in memory for the
> playlist, causing operations on it to slow down quickly as it grows
> longer. Amarok 2 technically handles large playlists a lot better but
> is visually even less optimized for it ( its very hard hitting a
> specific spot in a playlist that long when scrolling in the new
> playlist ).
>
> If this is really the usecase you feel you need, Juk is a better
> application as it was designed specifically around this usage pattern.
>
> But really, give dynamic playlists a go, I am pretty sure you will not
> look back! :-)
>
> - Nikolaj
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