Slow searches

[way2fst4u]

I'm looking for tips on speeding up my song searches. If I search for a track while someone is singing, the lyrics hang or lag. It also displays zero results until the search is COMPLETE. This is a NEW MacBook Pro with an i5 processor and 4GB Ram. I know I have an excessively large song DB, but I was using another program (which will remain nameless on your forum out of respect), and it was MUCH faster searching through songs, and I could queue people up while I had singers singing. My show has been very sluggish since I switched over. I know part of it is because I don't know program as well, but that search is killin me.

Also, Is there any way to have the search running as you type? Like if I type Da, it will fill in Dave or something like that? Not sure what you call It.

[dave]

I'm looking for tips on speeding up my song searches

see Slow Searching

If I search for a track while someone is singing, the lyrics hang or lag

that should never happen. if it's happening, it's a bug that can be fixed.
how many songs in your library?
are you playing a CDG song when the lyrics lag?
does it lag every time? or just occasionally?

It also displays zero results until the search is COMPLETE

that is how it works, yes
the rest of your questions are answered in the Slow Searching link

[way2fst4u]

If I search for a track while someone is singing, the lyrics hang or lag.
that should never happen. if it's happening, it's a bug that can be fixed.
how many songs in your library?
are you playing a CDG song when the lyrics lag?
does it lag every time? or just occasionally?

I have 133946 songs. Yes, I am playing a CDG (zipped) and it happens every time. I have nothing else running.

[way2fst4u]

To get into a little more detail, while it is searching, the song plays fine...my apologies for the confusion. Once the search s finished, and KJams attempts to post the data, it takes maybe 2-3 seconds and the lyrics on the currently playing song freeze. Once the data posts, the lyrics continue where they should be...not where they left off.

This is forcing me to search for and enter singers' songs between performances. On nights I have 30+ singers it slows my show to a crawl. I pride myself, and I'm known as the best KJ in the area...I am always trying to improve for my singers, and the venues are calling me. I'm afraid of losing this. Any help you could provide would be most beneficial. I really don't want to go back to my old PC solution, but it's looking like I may have to.

[dave]

while it is searching, the song plays fine ... Once the search s finished ... it takes maybe 2-3 seconds [to post] and the lyrics on the currently playing song freeze

Okay, that's definitely a bug. thanks for the info, i'll fix that right away

[dave]

i just tried it with a 160k song library, no video stutter at all.
so i need to see your system. please call me ASAP, (search for "fone" at that link), i'm actually here all day today.

[way2fst4u]

Thanks for taking a look into my system yesterday. However, I believe I've found the culprit. I tried to duplicate the setup last night. I was doing a DJ/Karaoke night on Sunday. I had my Numark NS7 plugged into one USB port, and a powered hub plugged into the other. Off the hub I had my WD Passport UNPOWERED harddrive, Numark DJ/IO (External sound card) & Logitech trackman USB trackball. I could not get the NS7 to work on the hub, so I swapped ports with the harddrive, and it seemed to work. I wonder if the hub was the bottleneck that slowed everything down? I am currently looking to buy a 1TB Firewire or TB drive to replce it, and I'll use the USB as a backup.

[dave]

excellent. yes Firewire is great (untill Thunderbolt is pervasive). make sure you get FW800.

[way2fst4u]

I only have a FW800 port on this machine...400 is no better than USB 2.0?

[way2fst4u]

Do you think that what was causing the issue? And also the reason we couldn't duplicate it yesterday?

[dave]

it's possible, but can't really tell without a reliable reproduction of the issue.

[way2fst4u]

I have a show tonight. I'll let you know how it goes. So far, so good though. Incidentally, it's still pushing data from yesterday...

[dave]

you can safely stop the pushing for now, and let it pick up again later.

[way2fst4u]

I'm at my show and it's doing it right now...

[way2fst4u]

The USB hard drive is into the USB port...not the hub.