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songbird *really* slow
Songbird is really, REALLY slow. I definitely know it is not my computer - I got it just a month ago, and everything else works fine on it:
Core i7 920 3.0GHz
MSI Eclipse Motherboard
6GB DDR3-1333 (with XP 32-bit only ~4GB, though)
And yet, it lags when you drag the window around, everything takes ages to do. Editing metadata for more than ~20 songs at a time causes it to momentarily freeze, the search-as-you-type thing takes ages to update itself, going from double-click on a song to actually playing it is about 5 seconds, switching between playlists is really slow and going back to the library is even worse, scrolling is laggy, and manipulating songs (moving them round, deleting them, adding them, [b]everything[/b]) is just woefully slow. I originally switched from iTunes because Songbird 1.0 was faster, but honestly, with the performance boosts with iTunes 8, and Songbird 1.1 and 1.1.2 getting slower and slower, I am seriously considering switching back.
Core i7 920 3.0GHz
MSI Eclipse Motherboard
6GB DDR3-1333 (with XP 32-bit only ~4GB, though)
And yet, it lags when you drag the window around, everything takes ages to do. Editing metadata for more than ~20 songs at a time causes it to momentarily freeze, the search-as-you-type thing takes ages to update itself, going from double-click on a song to actually playing it is about 5 seconds, switching between playlists is really slow and going back to the library is even worse, scrolling is laggy, and manipulating songs (moving them round, deleting them, adding them, [b]everything[/b]) is just woefully slow. I originally switched from iTunes because Songbird 1.0 was faster, but honestly, with the performance boosts with iTunes 8, and Songbird 1.1 and 1.1.2 getting slower and slower, I am seriously considering switching back.
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Inappropriate?I have the same problems too. My PC is not as fast as yours, but it is unacceptable to wait 30 seconds when searching in a database with about 5.000 songs. I'm really curious if this problem comes from the database, or from the XULRunner part. Interestingly is that it was fast in the beginning, so maybe some plugins may slow it down (I have only the lyrics one installed).
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Inappropriate?G'day,
Part of the problem is because Isan/1.2 runs the library and GUI in the same thread. The non technical way of thinking about it is a circular road with 2 car. One car is the library and the other is the interface. If one car stops, the other does, and if one slows down dramatically, the other will.
In Jackson 5 (or Kanye) though, the cars are on seperate roads now. So if one car slows down, the other will in many cases keep running ok.
This means that the GUI will hopefully stop freezing up or slowing down in Songbird 1.3 (or 1.4 ) when doing things, and everything will be more smooth in general. Apparently this also includes the slowdown during searching :D They really wanted it to be a part of 1.2, however, apparently it wasn't ready at the time.
More technical information can be found at:
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show...
Furthermore, as you all know, the firefox 3.5 technologies add epic speed increases, and since firefox uses the same code base, when ported back here, the interface and songbird will get further speed increases.
So a lot of MAJOR performance enhancements soon hopefully :D
Andrew
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Thanks for this info, andrew!
I always appreciate your up to date news. :-)
CHAMP
