Custom Browse menus with custom scan items are sometimes very slow to
load.
Sometimes they are so slow (1 or 2 minutes) and resource intensive that
if selecting from the Touch, the Touch thinks the connection has been
lost. Sometimes, if I am playing something at the same time as looking
for something new, playback stops and resumes when the menu is
returned.
If I have to live with slow menus I will, but I can't live with
playback stopping when perusing the menus.
Most of my menus are based on the suggested Custom Scan menus for
classical, with additions. The problem seems to occur with all of
them. A sample (using the Custom Scan definition of Artist) is at the
end of this post.
Sometimes the menus are quick. I haven't fathomed a pattern. I do
shut my PC down each night, so things do have to be reloaded, but my
impression is that even when I have run a menu once, if I don't run it
for several hours it gets slow again. I wonder if an in-memory copy of
items is getting purged once in a while.
I am on 7.6.1. For Custom Scan I have Startup and Rescan Refresh set
to Yes, Automatic set to No (so I can control when it runs). I haven't
added or changed any music recently. I've about 14,500 tracks on my
PC.
I currently have the performance settings with the Database Memory at
'High', server at -6 Above Normal, scanner at 0. I have very little
artwork.
I am getting close to giving up on 7.6. I suspect I've spent more time
trying to get it work smoothly than listening to my music. This is not
good. I must add that it isn't any fault of 3rd party providers such
as Erland, but Logitech who hung on to the beat for ages and then
sprung the final on everybody unexpectedly. This is a real shame. It
is almost really good, but instability is almost fatal in a consumer
device (unless the name starts with 'i-', for reasons I don't
comprehend).
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<custombrowse>
<template>
<id>customscan_multiplecustomtagsalbums</id>
<parameter type="text" id="menuname"><value>Albums by
Artist</value></parameter>
<parameter type="text" id="menugroup"><value>Classical
Music</value></parameter>
<parameter type="text"
id="menuorder"><value>50</value></parameter>
<parameter type="text"
id="datasource"><value>mixedtag</value></parameter>
<parameter type="text"
id="limituppertags"><value>1</value></parameter>
<parameter type="text"
id="roles"><value>1</value><value>3</value><value>5</value><value>6</value></parameter>
<parameter type="text"
id="showartistwithalbum"><value>0</value></parameter>
<parameter type="text"
id="customtag1"><value>ARTIST</value></parameter>
<parameter type="text" id="customsorttag1"></parameter>
<parameter type="text"
id="customtag1artistsort"><value>0</value></parameter>
<parameter type="text"
id="customtag1numbersort"><value>0</value></parameter>
<parameter type="text"
id="customtag2"><value>ALBUM</value></parameter>
<parameter type="text"
id="level2name"><value>Albums</value></parameter>
<parameter type="text" id="customsorttag2"></parameter>
<parameter type="text"
id="customtag2artistsort"><value>0</value></parameter>
<parameter type="text"
id="customtag2numbersort"><value>0</value></parameter>
<parameter type="text" id="customtag3"></parameter>
<parameter type="text" id="level3name"></parameter>
<parameter type="text" id="customsorttag3"></parameter>
<parameter type="text"
id="customtag3artistsort"><value>0</value></parameter>
<parameter type="text"
id="customtag3numbersort"><value>0</value></parameter>
<parameter type="text" id="customtag4"></parameter>
<parameter type="text" id="level4name"></parameter>
<parameter type="text" id="customsorttag4"></parameter>
<parameter type="text"
id="customtag4artistsort"><value>0</value></parameter>
<parameter type="text"
id="customtag4numbersort"><value>0</value></parameter>
<parameter type="text" id="customtag5"></parameter>
<parameter type="text" id="level5name"></parameter>
<parameter type="text" id="customsorttag5"></parameter>
<parameter type="text"
id="customtag5artistsort"><value>0</value></parameter>
<parameter type="text"
id="customtag5numbersort"><value>0</value></parameter>
<parameter type="text"
id="playalltracks"><value>1</value></parameter>
<parameter type="text" id="library"><value>2</value></parameter>
<parameter type="text"
id="activelibrary"><value>0</value></parameter>
<parameter type="text" id="includedclients"></parameter>
<parameter type="text" id="excludedclients"></parameter>
<parameter type="text" id="includedlibraries"></parameter>
<parameter type="text" id="excludedlibraries"></parameter>
</template>
</custombrowse>
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PasTim
Server on Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, 2 CPU, 2GHz, 4GB, FLAC files. Touch
on Ethernet (in another room). Analogue out over 'a bit of wire' to
ageing Quad Hi-Fi. An old (wireless) laptop controls the server using
Chrome.
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