I've posted previously about trouble I've had with MM4 and an existing iTunes directory structure that plays just fine, both on this hardware with iTunes and also a Mac with this HDD installed in it.
Now I've decided to try MM5 to see if it's a more promising base to begin tweaking. This is what comes up after installation, during the very first attempt to run MM5:
Note that it is hung at exactly 64000 files imported from the MM4 library, and the other numbers aren't far off round either.
Task Manager shows two instances of the program running, with the CPU load at 9%:
Program won't close, must force-quit.
On restart, it looks like it's starting a TON of PowerShell scripts?
BUT...
I think it's better. At least, operationally. So far, I've played 6 songs without any indication of the problems I had with MM4.
So, what started out as a bug report may end up being a sign of massive improvement. It's slow to redraw when you change columns or change sort order, but the actual PLAYING of tracks seems to be better with MM5 than MM4. I base this only on the inability for my full library in MM4 to play more than 2 songs in a row.
I'm seeing some other stuff that may not be MM5 related (100+ instances of conhost.exe, for example), so I'll do a reboot, virus scan, run process explorer, then start MM5 again and see where it takes me. Overall, this is already a huge improvement.
So maybe this'll shut me up for a while.
I've posted previously about trouble I've had with MM4 and an existing iTunes directory structure that plays just fine, both on this hardware with iTunes and also a Mac with this HDD installed in it.
Now I've decided to try MM5 to see if it's a more promising base to begin tweaking. This is what comes up after installation, during the very first attempt to run MM5:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/en1fnFX.png[/img]
Note that it is hung at exactly 64000 files imported from the MM4 library, and the other numbers aren't far off round either.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/cQwP88c.png[/img]
Task Manager shows two instances of the program running, with the CPU load at 9%:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/IbgcUNo.png[/img]
Program won't close, must force-quit.
On restart, it looks like it's starting a TON of PowerShell scripts?
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I think it's better. At least, operationally. So far, I've played 6 songs without any indication of the problems I had with MM4.
So, what started out as a bug report may end up being a sign of massive improvement. It's slow to redraw when you change columns or change sort order, but the actual PLAYING of tracks seems to be better with MM5 than MM4. I base this only on the inability for my full library in MM4 to play more than 2 songs in a row.
I'm seeing some other stuff that may not be MM5 related (100+ instances of conhost.exe, for example), so I'll do a reboot, virus scan, run process explorer, then start MM5 again and see where it takes me. Overall, this is already a huge improvement.
So maybe this'll shut me up for a while.