matrulesok Posted April 9, 2005 Report Share Posted April 9, 2005 (edited) I am posting here on the advice of kurisu:My sonicstage 3 runs very slowly when my entire collection is in the library. It is suggested that this is abnormal, is it?I have overcome it by just importing the files I plan to move to MD, then once they are transferred, deleting them.An example; I have about 200-250 zz top files. when double clicking on the artist name, zz top, it will take about 20 seconds to show all the albums (about 15). However, it will take a similar amount of time to open an artists albums if there is 1 song in 1 album for them.My entire collection is about 15gb, or 2800 songs. As I said in my original post, programs such as winamp perform much faster (no real delay) in doing the above operations.Thanks for any help! P.s. Does anyone know if in the foreseeable future there will be any plugins that allow atrac playback in winamp, xmms (linux) or similar, thanks again! Edited April 9, 2005 by matrulesok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted April 9, 2005 Report Share Posted April 9, 2005 Post your system specs according to the rules [the rules are pinned in a topic at the top of the forum]. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrulesok Posted April 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2005 (edited) Post your system specs according to the rules [the rules are pinned in a topic at the top of the forum]. ←sorry! Athlon 2400ghz processor512mb ramwindows xp sp2 Edited April 9, 2005 by matrulesok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrain Posted April 9, 2005 Report Share Posted April 9, 2005 have you got much free space on the hard drive? if you've got the cash bung in some more ram. not a specific solution but never, ever hurts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrulesok Posted April 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2005 have you got much free space on the hard drive? if you've got the cash bung in some more ram. not a specific solution but never, ever hurts.←ha! wish i had - just bought nh900, phone got broke (went in washing machine), and bought some new cd's - no money for ram unfortunatley!I think, unless there is a specific solution, i'll stick with just importing, transferring then deleting. How does everyone else's ss3 run with similar (or larger) libraries? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted April 9, 2005 Report Share Posted April 9, 2005 No, he shouldn't need better hardware than what he's got for good preformance. How many other programs are running when you use Sonicstage? If you did a control + alt + del and clicked on the processes tab, could you take a screenshot of it with Sonicstage open?p.s. How big is your hard drive and how full is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrulesok Posted April 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2005 No, he shouldn't need better hardware than what he's got for good preformance. How many other programs are running when you use Sonicstage? If you did a control + alt + del and clicked on the processes tab, could you take a screenshot of it with Sonicstage open?p.s. How big is your hard drive and how full is it?←I'll work on it, how do you take sccreenshot? Sonicstage on its own or with outlook and ie running = no difference!i have about 30gb free Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted April 9, 2005 Report Share Posted April 9, 2005 Press the print screen key and paste it in outlook, and save that file as a gif or jpeg and attach it in a reply. When was the last time you defragged the drive, btw? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrulesok Posted April 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2005 Press the print screen key and paste it in outlook, and save that file as a gif or jpeg and attach it in a reply. When was the last time you defragged the drive, btw?←You mean paint - i knew what you meant! I'm just re-importing my collection now, but i have a shot of it with just 2 albums in aswell, give me a few minutes. Thanks for your support! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrulesok Posted April 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2005 (edited) ok, first off, after re-importing the library, i have noticed the delays have decreased. It now takes about 7-10 seconds to open an artists albums, however I have not added my entire collection this time, I have another 300 songs on another (slower and smaller) hard drive. Perhaps this is a main factor (sorry I forgot to mention it before)!with large library[attachmentid=187]without[attachmentid=188]sorry about the size, but its just how it came out! Edited April 9, 2005 by matrulesok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted April 9, 2005 Report Share Posted April 9, 2005 Good to hear things are progressing. Have you tried optimizing the database? It's available in the options.p.s. Nice catch on me saying outlook instead of paint..I've had only a hour of sleep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrulesok Posted April 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2005 Good to hear things are progressing. Have you tried optimizing the database? It's available in the options.p.s. Nice catch on me saying outlook instead of paint..I've had only a hour of sleep. ←I will optimize, but I thats about it now, its still not as fast as winamp, but not by much, and if it falls to 5 seconds after optimizing and defragging, i'll be happy!Thanks again for your help, and just remember, don't split your library over 2 hard drives! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syrius Posted April 9, 2005 Report Share Posted April 9, 2005 Also make sure it's clean from spyware and similar stuff. Give Ad-Aware and Spybot SD a spin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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