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I've read on few places that Songbird is no good with more than some thousands of library items because it starts getting quite slow.
Well, in my case (which is a clean install) I've imported 17k items (which I know is not that much) and instead of becoming just too slow it frequently gets to not responding for several minutes until getting back to its senses again. That's for whichever random operation such as deleting 1 item from library.
I've also read on few more places that gives very little hope on fixing this issue, but I wonder...
Is there any way to tweak it and make it work as fast as expected? Am I missing something or is the software just not intended for libraries with more than 10 thousand thingies?
edit: I've managed to select and tell to remove many, many tracks I wanted to remove from my library, and it's hanging on my machine for over 2 days now. I wonder how long it would take. I got just 3 more days to wait, then I'll have to turn it off to use my machine. :o
That what I meant by really slow! :o
2nd edit: 4 days later, I gave up on it. Decided to take my machine back 1 day earlier. Hope to see improvements at some version.
cregox
Posted 2011-01-10T09:15:19.383
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I understand your frustration, but you might not want to be passive aggressive when you're looking for help. – Paul Lammertsma – 2011-01-10T10:16:00.860
@Paul Thanks for the hint. Is my fix good enough? I'm not too sure where I was being "passive aggressive". I was just trying to add some humor. I'm really not that frustrated. This is just a minor part of my years long fight for the library. – cregox – 2011-01-10T10:57:32.757
Btw, some users on this site punish expletives (even those with the best of intentions) with downvotes. It's in your own interest to not use them.
– Daniel Beck – 2011-01-10T11:03:37.4671Edited a bit. Revert if you don't like it -- just seemed like a good idea. – Daniel Beck – 2011-01-10T11:05:52.893
@Daniel thanks (as usual)! I'll try avoiding expletives while learning which ones they are. :P another question: why removed "mac" from the title? – cregox – 2011-01-10T11:53:38.000
@Cawas It's redundant (I tagged it as
osx) and actually a little wrong (Mac no longer reasonably implies OS X). At least I hope I got your intended meaning and tagged it correctly. – Daniel Beck – 2011-01-10T13:16:03.877@Daniel I thought OS X didn't reasonably implied mac. I at least never seem of someone buying a mac and completely excluding the X. I've noticed the tag but I figured on the title it's more explicit and less confusing. Well, anyway, it looks good. I asked about it in case it was due to something else I couldn't see. Thanks! ;) – cregox – 2011-01-10T13:47:08.333
@Cawas You're welcome. Just hover the
– Daniel Beck – 2011-01-10T13:49:51.573osxtag above (or click here) and you'll see its description on SuperUser -- it's exclusively for Mac OS X. Themactag ( info ) is for Mac hardware only.@Daniel oh I see... maybe that's what should be fixed! OS X can be, after all, installed in other machines and it was thanks to installing it on my last PC that I decided I was going to switch to a mac. – cregox – 2011-01-10T14:06:57.590