Hi,

after a year or so i tried amarok again.
As it was very interesting some time before i had some disagreements with amarok which let me choose another music player.

Now i came back to amarok, hoping that the main problem i had (dealing with great playlists) has become more stable but it isn\'t.

I don\'t know if you guys have mentioned it before, i guess you did.
But amarok is so damn slow when loading and working with a great playlist.
My playlist consists of over 6000 titles and i dont really want to divide it.. other players can deal them very well (ig xmms, bmp).

Hope you can fix that soon or give a short reply on what is going on.

greetings,

Keepers

What version of amaroK? 1.4beta1?

i am currently using amarok 1.3 on suse 10.0 with kde 3.5.1

1.3.what?

newest changelog: * Reduced memory usage for large playlists to under 30% of pre-1.4 versions!

upgrade! http://rokymotion.pwsp.net/nightly-buil ... /SUSE10.0/

(beta and svn, at your own risk, works fine here though)

This is more on the same topic I found performace really annoyingly slow in comparison with other players out there. Like iTune, well at least older versions. Anyways I am using 1.4.8 on 10.3

I am loading playlist with about 3.700 tracks and it takes about a minute to load. Which I think is slow and frustrating.

Is it just me or there is an issue to be addressed?


Alex

You should not be using such large playlists with Amarok.
Have a look at http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Dynamic_Playlist_Walkthrough

The issue is that Amarok was never designed or meant to be used with huge playlists like that, so the implementation does not really agree with it. Have you looked into smart and dynamic playlists? These features can manage almost any use cases that would otherwise require having huge playlists loaded. If not, have a look at http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Dynamic_Playlist_Walkthrough.

Amarok 2 will run faster with huge playlists loaded due to the new model / view architecture, but the new main playlist design is really not designed for it either, so the overall experience might not be any better, even if it will be significantly faster.

- Nikolaj