Tagged as performance

Performance work for 1.9, a follow up.

By Aus Aus

Here’s quick update before the weekend for the folks interested in performance improvements that are going into our next release. Significant progress has been made for browsing large libraries as well as searching. We’re hoping that most of you will have a much better experience if you have a library that’s 25,000 tracks and larger. [...]

Performance work for 1.9

By Aus Aus

We’ve been listening to everyone’s wishes for better performance while browsing and searching the library and plan on improving this area substantially for Songbird 1.9. The current nightly builds already show really good improvement when using the filter panes and search. If you’re curious, you can go and try it out now by grabbing a [...]

Database Schema Changes in Nightly (We broke your sh*t)

By steve steve

Heads-up to folks who download nightlies or build from trunk! I just landed bug 8247 which included a change to our library database schema. It turns out using 36 character strings instead of integers as foreign keys bloats the size of your database and generally slows things down. This fix reduces our library database size [...]