reading tags

Submitted by JohnSmith on Thu, 2017-07-06 03:31

Forums:

I have:
# Show file titles (title, author, album) instead of file names?
ReadTags = no

im my config file

When i do a "A" (add recurcively to the playlist) everything goes smooth.
When the adding is done I want to save "V" the result in a playlist.m3u, The programs tells me it is "Reading tags..."
and this takes ages!

I told mocp to not read tags!

How can I stop mocp from reading tags?
Thanks!

JohnSmith

Thu, 2017-07-06 04:30

It is not a big issue.
I appreciate the program very much.
I used mpd for over a decade.
The only problem it has is coping with a large collection of music over the LAN.
I hope moc gives better results.
I guess the tags are the problem with large collections.
I do not use tags whatshowever. I use dir-name ;file-name

kmws

Thu, 2017-07-06 15:19

Indeed, ReadTags seems to be ignored while saving a playlist. Thanks for reporting this. Also, next time it would be helpful to write down your MOC version / distro you're using.

Will report further to mocmaint.

JohnSmith

Thu, 2017-07-06 16:21

I use moc 1.2.6 on debian 9 (stretch).

JohnSmith

Fri, 2017-07-07 14:58

mocp -V

This is : Music On Console
Version : 2.6-alpha3
Built : Nov 27 2016 10:55:04
Compiled with : OSS ALSA JACK DEBUG Network streams resample
Running on : Linux 4.9.30-arne-fx4100 x86_64
Author : Damian Pietras
Homepage : http://moc.daper.net/
E-Mail : mocmaint@daper.net
Copyright : (C) 2003-2016 Damian Pietras and others
License : GNU General Public License, version 2 or later

desu

Thu, 2019-01-24 17:10

Reading tags... (or total time) also slows detaching occasionally

jcf

Fri, 2019-01-25 00:36

Without doing more triage, I'd say it's the same underlying issue where MOC is saving the playlist at exit.

Setting SavePlaylist to "no" would avoid that, or maybe clearing the playlist before exitting.