CF has trouble with large quantities of music

ScrapMaker · July 4th, 2009, 08:50 PM

Whenever I browse to a folder with a bunch of files, CF freezes for up to 10 minutes...

If I try to search through all my music for a song, that can easily take 5-10 minutes.

If I try to add my entire collection, as to randomly play all my music, CF seems to completely lock up. I've waited over 20 minutes, and eventually just given up.

This seems a bit long to me, and I think it has something to do with CF not actually scanning/creating it's own database for my music... so it gets overwhelmed. What I don't get, is I can browse through Windows, and right-click, enque to Winamp, and doing my entire collection only takes a minute, and doesn't lock up my PC. Winamp also has my entire collection loaded up, and I can search, getting results instantly, nothing locking up, no weird problems...

Anyone have any tips? I didn't see anything that let me scan in my music, other than I added the music folders in the settings menu.

For reference, I have 350GB of music on my local hard drive. The whole point of building a carPC was so that I could search quickly and easily through all my music, rather than using a terrible interface like a headunit or iPod. If searches are going to take longer than 10 seconds, that would really be unacceptable. I am using the trial version, on a E7400 2.8GHz w/2GB RAM. It's definitely not a hardware limitation. I am also using Vista64 Ultimate.

Thanks guys.

trinybwoy · July 5th, 2009, 01:07 AM

i have the same issue.
i only have 160gb
but the abysmal handling of large quantities of music is a major turn off.

i have resorted to using winamp with a touchscreen skin.
i have lost all of centrafuses features such as stacked playlists, which i LOVE, and easy of use while driving
but winamp does handle my entire collection with breeze.
i also use winamp cuz i can control it with my ipod touch.
i use the iTouch as the "passenger control" device lol
my passengers love it, being able to control the music they want to listen to right on the ipod.

trinybwoy · July 5th, 2009, 01:08 AM

i have the same issue.
i only have 160gb
but the abysmal handling of large quantities of music is a major turn off.

i have resorted to using winamp with a touchscreen skin.
i have lost all of centrafuses features such as stacked playlists, which i LOVE, and easy of use while driving
but winamp does handle my entire collection with breeze.
i also use winamp cuz i can control it with my ipod touch.
i use the iTouch as the "passenger control" device lol
my passengers love it, being able to control the music they want to listen to right on the ipod.

prozac3350 · July 5th, 2009, 06:28 AM

Ive got XP SP3 using Atom 330 (1.6Ghz dual core) 512mb of ram, 170GB of music mp3, wma and m4a and using version 2.1 and it handles music flawlessly, 28,000 song playlist and there is no lag or delay and less than 20% cpu usage.

ScrapMaker · July 5th, 2009, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by prozac3350

Ive got XP SP3 using Atom 330 (1.6Ghz dual core) 512mb of ram, 170GB of music mp3, wma and m4a and using version 2.1 and it handles music flawlessly, 28,000 song playlist and there is no lag or delay and less than 20% cpu usage.

So when you go to the 'library' button, where it shows artist, song, filename, etc, and you hit the magnifiying glass to search, how long does it take to find a song? Mine freezes from anywhere to 5 to 20 seconds as it searches the library, (using filename.)

Before I scanned in the library using the tool menu, it would take 20 minutes...

nemo · July 5th, 2009, 05:43 PM

I only have about 20GB of music (~5k songs) and agree. CF's handling of music is a huge fail. It takes way too long to load directories, and the playlist capabilities are pretty bad for big music libraries.

prozac3350 · July 6th, 2009, 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by ScrapMaker

So when you go to the 'library' button, where it shows artist, song, filename, etc, and you hit the magnifiying glass to search, how long does it take to find a song? Mine freezes from anywhere to 5 to 20 seconds as it searches the library, (using filename.)

Before I scanned in the library using the tool menu, it would take 20 minutes...

If i search using Artists, Albums or Songs results come up in 0-2 seconds.
Searching using filename does actualy take between 5seconds to over 1minute.
I dont really use filename search but I'll agree with you guys that is a bad bug as I cant shutdown pc in this lockup status, also a safety hazard as its harder to control volume too.

Cheers
Dean

156Chris · July 6th, 2009, 03:41 AM

+1 (was going to raise this topic myself), I've only got about 8 gig of music on at the moment (only transfered 1 lot with an 8g memory stick), and even with 2 Gig ram and a AMD Dual Core x64 processor it still takes a good 10 seconds after pressing "music" for the plugin to show ...

Ripplinghurst · October 2nd, 2009, 02:21 AM

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Originally Posted by ScrapMaker

For reference, I have 350GB of music on my local hard drive. The whole point of building a carPC was so that I could search quickly and easily through all my music, rather than using a terrible interface like a headunit or iPod. If searches are going to take longer than 10 seconds, that would really be unacceptable.

You took the words out of my mouth.

I've experienced somewhat similar problems, I have a 170GB song folder, plus 96GB of video clips. I have to rely heavily on playlists, browsing is not an option, queuing multiple playlists or genres is out of the question.

I have an Intel Core 2 duo 6550, 2GB, DG45FC in the car. I hate the lockups, I'm always scared this will mess up with the next hibernation (and it frequently does).

ScrapMaker · October 2nd, 2009, 10:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ripplinghurst

You took the words out of my mouth.

I've experienced somewhat similar problems, I have a 170GB song folder, plus 96GB of video clips. I have to rely heavily on playlists, browsing is not an option, queuing multiple playlists or genres is out of the question.

I have an Intel Core 2 duo 6550, 2GB, DG45FC in the car. I hate the lockups, I'm always scared this will mess up with the next hibernation (and it frequently does).

The only 'solution' I could think of was to disable ID3 tag scanning. This made searches difficult, and I lost a lot of cleanliness in all my listings.

In the end, I gave up on CF for now, and bought SD2.