Loss of responsiveness when importing a lot of songs

[digimezzo]

Reported by a user:

I have imported over 14000 songs in dopamine. Now the whole software has become way much slower and less responsive. Is there anything I can do about it?

TODO: perform test with 14000 songs.

[Root1-2]

If you want me to give you video of the problem, I would be happy to help.

[digimezzo]

@Root1-2 Yes, a video would be very helpful. Thank you.

[Root1-2]

https://streamable.com/uaj9ku

You can see in the timestamp how it's stuck in 1:20, that's usually what happened when I try to navigate.

[digimezzo]

@Root1-2 I found the source of the problem. It's the sorting of the tracks by album that is slow. If you change it to A-Z or Z-A performance should be much better. I'm working on a fix. I should be able to get you a build with a fix for all the sorting types tomorrow.

[digimezzo]

@Root1-2 This nightly build has the fix. Could you try it out? https://github.com/digimezzo/dopamine/actions/runs/10717657882

[Root1-2]

Tried the version you gave me. Same problem. Here is the new problem video:

https://streamable.com/l8alip

[digimezzo]

@Root1-2 That's bad news. Could you attach you log file here?

[Root1-2]

How to create a log file?

nvm. Got it.

Dopamine.log

[digimezzo]

You can open the folder that contains the log file from the settings screen:

[Root1-2]

Uploaded in the above comment.

[digimezzo]

@Root1-2 I made soem more adjustments. Could you try out this build and make a video so I can see how it performs on your system: https://github.com/digimezzo/dopamine/actions/runs/10745342673 Thanks

[Root1-2]

https://streamable.com/78qdq0

It's fixed now. Thank you.

One tiny suggestion though, when navigating to various section (Album, Songs, Artists etc), the song data is fetched again. You can prevent it by caching the data though, right?

[digimezzo]

Thanks for testing it out. Loading artists is still slow, but I expected that. I'm working on improving that. Albums and tracks now load fast. For fetching the tracks each time: each screen has it's own list. So caching or not, the list needs to be filled in and even with caching it would behave like it is now. But I'll see if I can improve that.

[Root1-2]

Thank you for your time man. Here's to another year of using Dopamine

[digimezzo]

Thank you for your time man. Here's to another year of using Dopamine

You're welcome. Thanks for your help and for using Dopamine.

[digimezzo]

@Root1-2 I've now fixed the loading of artists too. Could you try this build out and record a video for the last time so I can see how it responds for you: https://github.com/digimezzo/dopamine/actions/runs/10761663576 Thank you!

[Root1-2]

It's running much faster now. Thanks man. Here is the video of me running the latest version.

https://streamable.com/e5v0b3

[digimezzo]

@Root1-2 You're welcome. Thansk for spending the time to test it out and making the videos. It was very helpful!