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Hi Guys,

I have ported over some of my collection onto my giggin laptop - 15,000 tracks are audio and around 2,500 tracks are video so, not a huge collection by any standard. Lets say the collection node is selected and then I click on All Music Or All video there is a huge delay before the list is shown also, while the music is playing everything on screen freezes while the list is compiled and then all resumes as normal.

Is this correct behaviour? What happens when I put my full collection on of 50/60,000 tracks will it just refuse to work?

My laptop is a HP Core 2 Duo 2.3 Windows 7 Laptop with 8 Gigs ram, SSD Internal and External hard drive.

Any help or advise appreciated.

John

You need to let your collection be analysed for bpm key and more. Just let the process.

Your PC is just above minimum specs. So results won't be fasted. My PC is same but 3ghz. Working fine with indeed a little more delay as e.g a i5.
I mentioned anti virus. Exclude anakysis folder and also the collection folder. The program folder might be done as well. Behind the scenes a lot of read write is going on.

General priorities in Cross is 1 live audio 2 live video and 3 gui etc.

The number of tracks has some influence but your size is less than 75k I use.

You may notice that small collection is extremely fast.

Hi UncleVibes,

Its all been done. Everything analysed and saved.... there is just such a delay as above, by delay I'm talking 10 seconds maybe 12.

John

Ok guys - I have done a small screen recording showing the delay - as soon as the mouse is over where I want to click I click straight away so it gives you an idea how long its taking.

Your thoughts would be really appreciated as its nearly unusable:

wow ,, this is a delay ,, what do you have running in the back ground ,, what services are on that not nessary ,, my duo core 2.3 gightz didnt act that slow ,, even with anti virsus still on and exploring the web ,, ,, also curious where are the files stored on external hd or the ssd drive ,,

daniel clark wrote::cool: wow ,, this is a delay ,, what do you have running in the back ground ,, what services are on that not nessary ,, my duo core 2.3 gightz didnt act that slow ,, even with anti virsus still on and exploring the web ,, ,, also curious where are the files stored on external hd or the ssd drive ,,
:eek:

Hi Daniel,

No services running that are not needed - I have got a batch file that terminates all un-needed services, processes etc. I have terminated the antivirus which is Eset but that made no difference, the files are stored on an external USB3 hard drive. The database size is roughly 86MB and the Analysis size is roughly 4GB.

Regards John

might want to give info as to computer typ/specs os ,, etc all info and software info used to see if dev team can reproduce beyond my realm of knoweldge

Ok thanks Daniel, For the Dev team here are details:

Laptop: HP HDX16 1275EA Laptop
Windows 7 64bit Ultimate, fresh install (no bloatware) copy
8GB Ram
Intel Core 2 Duo P7450 CPU @ 2.13GHz
256GB Samsung SSD (Database & Analysis Files on here)
3TB USB3 External 7200 Hard Drive (Media tracks on here)
Nvidia GeForce GT 130M Graphics Card

Software Installed on Laptop

IE9
Firefox
Cross 3.2.0
Virtual DJ 8
Virtual DJ 7.4.1
Sweetlight DMX Software
Phoenix 4 ILDA Laser Control Software
Pangolin Quickshow ILDA Laser Control Software
Pangolin Beyond Ultimate Laser Control Software
Eset NOD32 Antivirus Version 7
K-Lite Codec Pack

For software that's it. All windows updates are fully installed, I have tried fully disabling antivirus but makes totally no difference, I also have run a batch file than disables non needed windows services and processes, again no difference.

Task Manager showing:

System Idle Process at roughly 99% all the time when nothing running
Processes running = 59
Physical Memory running around 18%

If you need any more info please let me know.

John

Not 100% sure, but the issue could be that your laptop doesn't have USB3 ports, and because of that your external media drive is running at USB2 speeds, thus causing the delay.

From the specs I found about your computer online it mention that it has an eSata and mini firewire port. I would try testing both of those ports with an external drive if at all possible.

If you don't want to get a whole new external hard drive, external enclosures are a cheap alternative, and then you could use the drive you currently have your collection on.

Here's an example of one that has both eSata and Firewire, and USB2...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817347033