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Bug 634660 - Album Art and Podcast list unbearably slow
Album Art and Podcast list unbearably slow
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 613723
Product: banshee
Classification: Other
Component: User Interface
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: 1.x
Assigned To: Banshee Maintainers
Banshee Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-11-12 06:40 UTC by Sven Nielsen
Modified: 2010-11-14 06:19 UTC
See Also:
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Description Sven Nielsen 2010-11-12 06:40:57 UTC 
I am quite bemused that no one seems to be caring about this severe issue.

Banshee display of album cover list and the new podcast list is breathtakingly slow! I mean, Banshee is a great application, but its performance footprint is unacceptedly huge for a media player. 

I don't know if Banshee is supposed to be restricted to owners of mainframe computers? 

I have a new Asus EEE PC, and Banshee is UNUSABLE on this netbook because scrolling through album art and the new podcasts list slows the system down completely and needs all of my CPU's power, draining my battery on the way.
  
Seriously, if mono is to blaim for this, then go and fix mono, or switch to something else. 

There are positively easy end performance efficient ways to query texts from databases and display simple images. Currently, Banshee seems to need a 4-core 3.5 GHZ CPU for comfortable usage, which is plainly embarassing.

Think about this! Especially if you plan to torture ALL Ubuntu users with this in the next Ubuntu release. Not everybody is a developer with supercomputers under its desk!

I think this deservers "blocker" as importance status.

Regards
Sven
Comment 1 David Nielsen 2010-11-14 00:17:05 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

Sven please also adopt a more polite tone when interacting with other human beings.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 613723 ***
Comment 2 Sven Nielsen 2010-11-14 06:19:01 UTC 
Hi David,

I certainly did not mean to offend, and I definitely wasn't impolite. Don't mistake a harsh critique as an offence. 

I certainly wanted to "stir the pot" as this issue has been present since album view came up and it hasn't improved ever since. 

I certainly do honour the huge effort all developers put into banshee, and, as I already said, Banshee is a great application, and, I would love to use it ..It's just that I can't.. as can't thousand of other users with either netbooks or non up-to-date hardware. This is a serious issue which deserves attention.

Regards
Sven