Strange, I currently have 28372 tracks in my library and have no such problem. Not on a laptop but also not on a super-fast machine. I wonder if it makes a difference how your music is organized, tagged, etc?
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:22:45 +0100, Joakim Eriksson wrote > I am an user of Rhythmbox and I have an improvement suggestion. > > The search bar can be really useful if you have a lot of files in > your sound library. However, the search bar in Rythmbox gets really > (and I mean really) slow for large libraries. There must be some way > to speed this up. > > An user example: I have about four and a half thousand sound files > in my library on a recently modern laptop (one year old, 2 gigabyte > of RAM etcetera). When I begin to type a search string, already at > the first character, Rythmbox starts to search for the specific > character and can lock the entire program for a good 10-20 seconds > or so. When the search is done, I can type in the rest of the > characters in the search string. The procedure repeats itself for > the rest of the characters, but with decreasing search time. The > first character is the worst. > > - Joakim > > _________________________________________________________________ > Dela foton på ett smidigt sätt med Windows [WINDOWS-1252?]Live Photos. > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/photos.aspx > _______________________________________________ > rhythmbox-devel mailing list > rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel -- Jason Bodnar ja...@shakabuku.org http://www.shakabuku.org _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel