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foobar good for big music collection ?

heeey

i got a lot of new music what made my winamp slow and sometimes freezing.
maybe its my slow pc (just 1,6ghz (!) and 2gig ram) or maybe its the high amount of mp3s (30k).

ehm foobar is indexing now for rund 15 minutes and I cant see on what folder he is. thats bad
at least in "preferences > media library > music folders" foobar shows me "indexing files...".
is he indexing now ?

and what general preferences or components are good to manage all my mp3s ?

are there lang-files out for foobar UI ?

foobar good for big music collection ?

Reply #1 –
foobar2000 is the only program out there i've used that can handle a huge collection. i have about 20k tracks, mostly lossless rips made by foobar2000.

foobar good for big music collection ?

Reply #2 –
How long does it take other apps to index all those files?


Once you wait out the initial library indexing, you won't find an app faster at handling huge amounts of files.
It regularly gets tested to make sure all the functionality works well with a library.dat that has indexed ~10 times that many tracks.
elevatorladylevitateme

foobar good for big music collection ?

Reply #3 –
Quote from: shakey_snake on
How long does it take other apps to index all those files?


Don't ask or compare this one. other players like winamp index different than foobar. winamp becomes playable at first start in seconds. It only indexes the files not all metadata, all metadata is indexed later or when playing the file (I am not sure when exactly).

foobar looses the speedrace when it comes to the first time librarybuilding because it's taking a long time before songs in the librarypath can be played.

at 2nd start foobar wins for sure.

foobar good for big music collection ?

Reply #4 –
It's still much faster than itunes, songbird etc at first indexing. It indexes my library of over 400gb in like 15minutes, thats quite impressive.

foobar good for big music collection ?

Reply #5 –
I have 70k songs and it works great except for doing searches with my single core atom 1,6 ghz, it'll make foobar freeze for 1-2 sec when I enter a song or an artist. Being able to choose a separate database to handle the media libary (sqllite perhaps) on a remote machine would be awesome

foobar good for big music collection ?

Reply #6 –
foobar is the absolute master concerning startup-time (after initial indexing).

My friend has a 120k tracks library and a standard PC from 2007 (don´t know the exact specifications).

Takes about 6 seconds to startup. No other player is that fast.

edit: and he (me too) uses some of those so-called "crashware" components like EL playlist, panel stack splitter, biography view and some more. NO problem at all, everything runs smooth as hell

foobar good for big music collection ?

Reply #7 –
I have 32k of tracks, and it's the fastest media player out there.

I have used nearly every media player out there, and foobar is definitely the fastest.

foobar good for big music collection ?

Reply #8 –
Quote from: sopparus on
Being able to choose a separate database to handle the media libary (sqllite perhaps) on a remote machine would be awesome
sql and variants are incompatible with databases that require multiple values for fields, like tags need to be mapped.
elevatorladylevitateme

foobar good for big music collection ?

Reply #9 –
well, whatever handles the datebase if it could be offloaded to another machine then
 

foobar good for big music collection ?

Reply #10 –
Quote from: smkk on
It's still much faster than itunes, songbird etc at first indexing. It indexes my library of over 400gb in like 15minutes, thats quite impressive.


just about my experience. i thought the indexing was quite impressive, (80k+ tracks in that 400gb)

to the op, imo you really wanna judge a player post install. if it handles your usual chores more efficiently then the (one time) front end setup becomes irrelevant.