On 5/18/06, Martin Toft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
xmms on my computer freezes temporarily when doing disk-intensive tasks, e.g. examining the ID3-tags of a long playlist. <...>
While not a solution to the general problem of stuttering in xmms, the stuttering while scrolling your playlist is easily solved now by saving into the playlist the ID3-tag data. xmms will do this for you if you load a playlist, scroll through it (so that xmms has to load the data for all the entries), and then save the playlist back to disk, overwriting the file you loaded. When you next load that playlist, you'll experience no delays for ID3-tag loading. That's just for .m3u playlist files, of course. Not perfect, but it's an easy to to get rid of an annoying class of blips. (The data is just placed in comments in the .m3u file, so you could probably whip up a script to insert that info without having to work the xmms GUI...) Philip Guenther
