I've recently transferred my SC setup from my main XP computer to a slightly lower spec XP box that is primarily for the kids to do their homework on. It's a nice quiet, low power box, yet SC runs nice and snappy. I had Erland's Multi-Library and Custom Browse plugins installed on the main computer previously, and they worked perfectly, allowing me to separate my wife's iTunes music and playlists from the 'master' library. However, on transferring everything to the other PC, the multi-library plugin makes everything grind to a halt. With it installed, SC takes an age (many minutes) to start up, every click inside the SC interface takes minutes to respond, SC occupies the CPU at virtually 100%, and the hard disk churns away continuously.
I'm at a loss to explain this, since as far as I can see the two SC setups are the same. I've cleared out the multi-library libraries, I've tried every combination of Custom Browse and/or Multi-Library, and I've concluded that even a basic fresh install of just Multi-Library (without Custom Browse), even with no libraries defined, is enough to cause this behaviour. I did some searching and found reference to a similar problem, but with a much earlier version of Multi-Library. I'm using the current version 2.3.1. It looks suspiciously like a RAM problem (all the disk churning), as though Windows is having to page memory continuously. The lower spec PC has 1GB, where the previous one had 4GB. Does Multi-Library use a lot of RAM? -- chill ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10839 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61644 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
