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Michael Brooks replied on November 07, 2009 20:49 to the idea "Multiple Watch Directories" in Songbird:

Yeah its not on the roadmap. Even though its a dead simple feature, I guess they figure you can just use Symbolic Links. To be honest Songbird is unable to index more than a few thousand tracks, so i think that is more important at the moment.

Michael Brooks started following the problem "Trojan Horse in Songbird?" in Songbird.

Michael Brooks started following the problem "Songbird Memory Usage is Obscene" in Songbird.

Michael Brooks started following the problem "Cutting off the end of songs" in Songbird.

Michael Brooks started following the problem "Stuttering/skipping while playing music" in Songbird.

Michael Brooks started following the problem "Songbird does not remember scroll position in Library when switching between windows." in Songbird.

Michael Brooks replied on August 12, 2009 10:22 to the problem "Slow library search" in Songbird:

philler you must have like 50 songs in your entire library. This is a very serious problem that prevents people from using Songbird in favor of faster clients.

Michael Brooks replied on July 23, 2009 22:52 to the problem "Slow library search" in Songbird:

This is a problem with SQLite! Amarok has the same problem when it uses SQLite. If have a large collection i recommend using Amarok+MySQL , its the only software i have found that can handle my collection (~30,000 files).

Peace

Michael Brooks replied on July 23, 2009 22:50 to the idea "Songbird performance scalability solution." in Songbird:

Hey Larua, looks like this is a very common problem:
http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/t...

As long as you force users to use SQLite this problem will NOT go away.

Michael Brooks replied on July 23, 2009 22:35 to the idea "Songbird performance scalability solution." in Songbird:

Thanks Laura. I am not asking you to migrate to another database, i am asking you to support more than one database such as Amarok. I know sqlite is the problem and until you can support multiple database no serous audophiles will be able to use your software. If you don't believe me, just try and use it with 15k files, it will be completely unusable. Then try 30 or 50k files... it won't even index them.

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Michael Brooks replied on July 22, 2009 22:54 to the idea "Multiple Watch Directories" in Songbird:

Yeah right now I'm using symbolic links to do this, and its a mess!

Michael Brooks started following the idea "Multiple Watch Directories" in Songbird.

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Michael Brooks shared an idea in Songbird on July 22, 2009 22:50:

Songbird performance scalability solution.

Songbird is unusably slow for moderately sized music collection of only ~15,000 songs, which is less than 1/2 of my full collection. iTunes is also very slow for collections this size. Just because iTunes can't do it isn't a valid excuse, Amarok using a MySQL backend rocks a collection of this size with ease. I know when Amarok uses SQLite (the default), its also unusably slow. Perhaps songbird could use MySQL with the innodb engine like Amarok? If there is a Intellectual property issue then PostgreSQL(bsd license) would also be amazing!

Please improve the speed of Songbrid with moderately sized collections so I can use it! Until then I'll be stuck with Amarok+MySQL.

Peace