Playback of larger playlists is delayed

[Jaffex]

When starting a larger playlist (tried with about 600, 2000 and 6000 song playlists), as of the most recent update on testflight, 2.0.0 (1), playback is delayed.

Before the update, those playlists would start immediately.

Since version 2.0.0, when either tapping play, shuffle or any song within the playlist, for a few seconds nothing happens, then the song begins to play, and only a few seconds after that, the player bar catches up and shows which song is playing.

During these seconds, the app is unresponsive.

This issue scales with playlist size - the larger the playlist, the longer the delay.

I tried to scroll down to one of the last songs within the playlist and tried to start the playlist from there in an effort to see if the issue is related to the amount of songs that get filled into the upcoming items of the playlist, however the app crashed entirely when doing this.

It seemed that iOS freed up a lot of RAM at that point, maybe for amperfy, since all other apps got soft refreshed in the background.