I'm writing on behalf of someone with a large audio collection (28000 files, 120 GB). This person is happy with Rhythmbox, except that it's pretty slow.
I don't have exact measurements, but it's something in the order of: * 3 minutes for startup * 30 seconds to switch to a song from another playlist The user considers playlist switching as more important than startup time. The hardware is a modest laptop. The only thing so far I could think of to speed things up is to mount the data partition with noatime. That seems to have marginally improved it. Are there any other settings I could change to make it snappier? Or plugins that could help (I didn't spot anything relevant in the list on the wiki)? I was thinking it could be helpful if Rhythmbox could manage multiple collections. This person has many files that are used rarely, so those could be put in a separate collection (e.g. a USB drive). If that collection could be actived/deactivated on demand, then Rhythmbox would only have to deal with the often used collection most of the time. I appreciate any tips on this subject. _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
