lewismayfield
I have a large folder with about 30k songs on the C-drive of my windows 8 laptop.
if i look for songs in a small folder everything is fine but clicking on or recursing a large folder will cause the screen to freeze up to several minutes not seconds. the music will continue but the screen locks up.
I have seen many having similar issues with external drives but this is internal.
I would like to commit to and run VDJ but for gigs I have to stay with itch or OTS (which I hate) at the moment.
New laptop
i7 3630
12 Gigs of ram.
Any ideas??
if i look for songs in a small folder everything is fine but clicking on or recursing a large folder will cause the screen to freeze up to several minutes not seconds. the music will continue but the screen locks up.
I have seen many having similar issues with external drives but this is internal.
I would like to commit to and run VDJ but for gigs I have to stay with itch or OTS (which I hate) at the moment.
New laptop
i7 3630
12 Gigs of ram.
Any ideas??
Posté Tue 15 Jan 13 @ 10:10 pm
djstaffy
ok easiest thing would be to split into folders.
but i have similar on older laptop and no problems opening.i have scanned all my songs (took ages evev left overnight).
before every gig i open my folders one by one before i start work.
this way pc will just open them straight up if you need to re open.
mine does freeze but only for max 30 secs but nnever stops music playing only screen freeze
but i have similar on older laptop and no problems opening.i have scanned all my songs (took ages evev left overnight).
before every gig i open my folders one by one before i start work.
this way pc will just open them straight up if you need to re open.
mine does freeze but only for max 30 secs but nnever stops music playing only screen freeze
Posté Wed 16 Jan 13 @ 1:45 pm
Killbah
Try to set powersaving off for the harddisk...
Posté Thu 17 Jan 13 @ 2:08 pm
A Man and His Music
So, you are running the software, and trying to access your music, on the same drive? I have 4 internal 1TB drives, (desktop), full of videos. I'm sure you could, but I would not ask my C drive to do anything but run the software, in a live situation. Is this drive 90 percent full? Can you de-frag this drive?
Posté Thu 17 Jan 13 @ 9:05 pm
blckjck
After scanning/recursing all of your folders and adding them to your database, you shouldn't need to browse the folders. Thats what the search database is for. You can then create virtual crates and filters to find your tracks. If you recurse your root directory for 30k+ tracks, it's going to take a while.
Posté Thu 17 Jan 13 @ 9:38 pm
bkexpresz
Dude,best bet is get an external drive and put all your music and videos there,you will see an immediate improvement in your performance
Posté Sat 19 Jan 13 @ 7:00 am
blckjck
bkexpresz wrote :
Dude,best bet is get an external drive and put all your music and videos there,you will see an immediate improvement in your performance
I disagree with that. The speed of my internal is much faster the going thru my USB external. The biggest thing I did to help my song loading was to tell my antivirus to ignore that directory for live monitoring. When I add songs, they go into a different directory first, that is actively monitored. I think the OP's main problem is that he's browsing directories instead of utilizing the speed of the database.
Posté Sat 19 Jan 13 @ 1:02 pm
andytaylor125
The problem is, when you're browsing folders in Virtual DJ, the program is physically reading 30 000 things from your hard drive, so naturally it's going to take a while!
The trick is, if you set up some filter folders and browse and search in those, then the program is just searching through 30 00 entries in it's own database which is much, much quicker!
If you want to put filter folders that show a certain drive or certain folder on that hard drive, here's how:
Create a new filter folder (the blue folder icon to the right of the folder browser) and in the filter box, you write: "filepath contains c:/" or maybe "filepath contains c:/my documents/my music" or whatever you want it to!
It'll take a while to do them all, but you'll only have to do it once.
Hope that helps.
The trick is, if you set up some filter folders and browse and search in those, then the program is just searching through 30 00 entries in it's own database which is much, much quicker!
If you want to put filter folders that show a certain drive or certain folder on that hard drive, here's how:
Create a new filter folder (the blue folder icon to the right of the folder browser) and in the filter box, you write: "filepath contains c:/" or maybe "filepath contains c:/my documents/my music" or whatever you want it to!
It'll take a while to do them all, but you'll only have to do it once.
Hope that helps.
Posté Sun 20 Jan 13 @ 4:33 am