[mythtv-users] mythmusic stuff

[Ed Benckert]

> I'm quite happy running my xbox myth system now (with both frontend and
> backend on the xbox for now)  :) except for one thing;
> 
> In mythmusic, I have about 40GBs of songs; so naturally mythmusic is a
> little slow (takes about 45sec to start playing anything!!), however, when
> set on smart or random play mode, after it finishes a song, it often takes
> about another minute to start another song!!! Is this normal? During this
> time the frontend is completely unresponsive!
> 
> When I put it in no-shuffle mode or when I select a song, it comes up almost
> instantaneously!... ???
> 
> Also, browsing the music collection is a bit of a pain; I don't want to
> fluff around with playlists, but want to be able to basically browse stuff
> in a similar way to iTunes - are there any plans to incorporate something
> like this? Maybe even using the same itunes xml file?!!?

Why is you MythMusic so slow? I just figured it out. I've been screwing with 
the code this morning trying to find out why my 6gb of music (1800 songs) 
takes FOREVER to show up... and I figured it out. I'm going to post the 
reason/solution to the dev mailing list but I'll crosspost it here as well, 
as apparently it's not just me who's irriated by this problem.

I'll also be making a patch very shortly for it.

Reason why and how to fix is coming up next...