[mythtv] mythmusic: _very_ long delay on random playlist

[thor]

On Saturday 02 August 2003 03:35 pm, Ian Forde wrote:

>
> Actually, I'm seeing a longer "please wait" lead-in time to the start of
> playing a shuffled list.  I'm running CVS from 7/29... I'm not seeing
> the 20 seconds between each song though.  And I'm running a Celeron 1.4
> for mine...
>


	Huge playlist? The tree structure that holds the playlists need to get loaded 
into memory and sorted before it can release the interface to the user. If 
you've got a really big tree, it will take time to sort. This is a reality 
along the lines of, "if you have mass, gravity will act on you." Smaller 
playlists and/or playlist hierarchies (playlists within playlists) will help 
solve this "problem". Setting you default shuffle mode to None will help with 
initial load times.

-thor