So I've been a faithful clementine user since 2013 because it's FOSS with out of the box flac support, works on both windows and linux, and has a android remote.

As my library has bloated with more and more EDM FLAC,. I've noticed the app becoming less responsive, especially when searching. I have a Ryzen 7 and an NVME SSD, and my RAM usage never went above 60% so I don't think it's a hardware limitation.

I vowed never to muck about with processor priority after breaking things once before.

Can someone recommend an app that has snappy search even with 300gb+ libraries loaded in its search function?

  • ComradeSankara [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    So is your issue that the search within the app itself is whats getting slow?

    If so it may sound counterintuitive but I wonder if a search indexing software would help at all? Maybe something like Everything from VOID tools or Listary.

    I believe both of those apps can be set to limit searches by specific file types and then you could just start typing the name of the song, or artist and entries should instantly start popping up.

    Then would double clicking the song title from the search app play it in your desired music app?
    I know you mentioned needing Linux and Android so this would really only be a solution for Windows OS.

  • captcha [any]
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    4 years ago

    Learn to setup music player daemon, MPD. Its not simple compared to most music players but its basically the final god-form of music players. You'll need to read the manual to set it up but the final config will only a little over a dozen lines. I did have to fuck with some /etc file for libasound but thats pulseaudio being a prick as usual.

    If you get it setup there's no going back. Pick and choose your player to control it. Most foss players can be set to use mpd as a back end, even celmentine has it built in.

    Also if you have 300gb of music you should look into beets to sort and index it. It'll be a rough start to initialize the database but it'll be faster than doing itanually. Having an auto renamer when dealing with that many files is pretty clutch. I think some players can use beets as a backend but i just use it for renaming files.