Winamp re-scans the music folder unnecessarily.

[MrSinatra]

Playlist: around 23795

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this is interesting to me...

can u create a smartview and make a folder root with 4 branches so all your music is there duplicated 4 times off the one root in the smartview, and then when all ~92k some tracks show in the bottom ML tracks pane, double click one so all the tracks load into the scratch playlist area, and see if your lag gets much worse when trying to switch songs quickly in the ML tracks pane?

[Legendarion]

Uuumm... I'm not that technical. And I have never done what you are asking for.

[MrSinatra]

Uuumm... I'm not that technical. And I have never done what you are asking for.

its very, very easy to do.

create a folder off of a drive that has the HD GB space to contain your music files four time over.

e.g. USB Drive M:\test\

then copy all your music files and existing folder structure into it 4 times.

M:\test\a\
M:\test\b\
M:\test\c\
M:\test\d\

so u now have 23k music files separately but duplicated in: a b c & d folders for a total of ~92k music files.

add a smartview in the ML on the left side by right click, and edit it to tell it to point to the "test" folder as our root folder.

[Legendarion]

But the problem isn't that Winamp re-scans the music folder itself as I thought to begin with. The bug happens (or happened) by the time I click on the DVD-Drive in Media Library where the CD is inserted on.

So to avoid that Winamp refreshes the playlist entirely, I had to clean out the playlist and then reload it back.

[MrSinatra]

But the problem isn't that Winamp re-scans the music folder itself as I thought to begin with. The bug happens (or happened) by the time I click on the DVD-Drive in Media Library where the CD is inserted on.

i understand... i believe there is a lag / delay issue bug, and what we are seeing might be interrelated. so what i described is a way to test that hypothesis.

[Legendarion]

Ok, it is not fixed at all. The bug is still there. For some reason it worked somewhat well until now.

It's on its worst when "Read metadata when file(s) are loaded into Winamp (this can be slow if a large number of files are added at once)" is enabled.
What happens is by the time I close Winamp and then re-launch it, the HDD-lamp is working constantly and have to wait several minutes to Winamp appears.

It is less worse when "Read metadata in the background when file(s) are loaded into Winamp or are played or viewed in the playlist editor (default)" is enabled.
The only thing that happens is that the display is blinking on the bottom of the playlist and I can see the numbers in the playlist is being displayed downwards.

I can give a video on it later so you can see what actually happens.

[Legendarion]

Here's a video about the error I have been talking about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZalo9IgcAc

[MrSinatra]

Here's a video about the error I have been talking about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZalo9IgcAc

so tell me if i restate this properly:

when winamp is open, and a CD is inserted, and you switch to the CD view in ML, and then you close winamp, when you go to open winamp again, it either does not open, or it eventually does after a very long time. is that correct?

[Legendarion]

Correct.

Winamp will at the end show up, but it uses (more or less) 6-7 minutes to be done with the refreshing or whatever it does.
When the HDD-lamp on my cabinet is lighting constantly and Winamp doesn't start correctly, it means of course that something is wrong.

And like I said: It's on its worse when the mode "Read metadata when file(s) are loaded into Winamp (this can be slow if a large number of files are added at once)" is in use.

But when the mode "Read metadata in the background when file(s) are loaded into Winamp or are played or viewed in the playlist editor (default)" is used, I can close Winamp and start it up again as normal, but it'll work in the background with this refreshing-problem or whatever it is doing.

It has been doing this ever since winamp59_9999_rc1_full_en-us was launched.