Command line generate waveforms (or disable from GUI)

[chrisbeckstrom]

If I search for a common string like "kick," the GUI freezes and the stdout output has a lot of lines like

pixbuf_to_blob(): compressed pixbuf 12024 -> 547

I think this is generating a waveform for each file. Unfortunately this makes the program unusable while it's doing this.

I don't always need the waveform - it would be cool to either:

• Optionally disable the waveform preview from the GUI entirely (maybe just not show that column at all), or
• Add the ability to mass-generate the waveforms, perhaps via command line

Thanks!

[ayyi]

Hi
I think you are seeing a performance issue with the GtkTreeView widget which is slow to update when there are many rows.

Long term we will move away from this widget, but I guess I could throttle the update rate to make the application more responsive during waveform generation of very short files.

If you want a temporary workaround you could try additional filtering such as by directory or by tag,
or you could reduce the value of LIST_STORE_MAX_ROWS in lib/samplecat/list_store.h .

Thanks for reporting the issue.

[ayyi]

Hi

I just committed a change which I believe will help this situation.

The timings for the background tasks are now less aggressive which actually speeds up directory importation quite a lot.

[chrisbeckstrom]

awesome, thanks @ayyi ! and sorry I totally missed your comment from almost a year ago. Thanks for your hard work, I'll give it a shot!