[Bug 56269] New: random play on really large hayes playlists takes forever

[Michael Bauer]

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           Summary: random play on really large hayes playlists takes
                    forever
           Product: noatun
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Gentoo Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kde-multimedia at kde.org
        ReportedBy: Michael at m-bauer.org


Version:           unknown (using KDE 3.1.1)
Installed from:    Gentoo
Compiler:          gcc version 3.2.2
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.20-gentoo-r1

Hi,
i have a really large mp3 collection (~50 Gigabyte) mounted via nfs. Hayes is the perfect solution to handling these files, but when doing a random play on the whole collection CPU load goes to 100% and all noatun windows freeze. 
I think the problem is that in random mode noatun starts to scan all available files, which naturally takes a very long time for such a large collection. (i killed noatun after waiting for about 10 minutes...) The network speed should not be the problem, the server is connected via switched fullduplex 100MBit.
So i am not sure if theres a simple solution. Either changing the "randomize" algorithm or maybe as a interim solution starting another thread that collects the info to at least prevent the GUI from freezing?

Maybe its just a bad idea after all to start a random play on 50 Gigs of data ;-) but i just wanted to inform you there are potential problems regarding the randm play...

Anyway, thanks for that great product! Beeing a longtime xmms-user i actually only started using Noatun when i recognized the impressive Hayes playlist. That really made my day ;-)

thanks
Michael