Increase Playlist Generator Pro Generating Calculation Rapidity

[Altec]

Hi Dmitry,

When you have a big Database, and when you are using tags and priorities options, more you have options much time you spent to generate. It Took approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes to generate 24 hours program.

I don't know if the engine could be optimized, but let me know about it.

Thanks

Altec

 

[djsoft]

When you have a big Database, and when you are using tags and priorities options, more you have options much time you spent to generate. It Took approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes to generate 24 hours program.

I don't know if the engine could be optimized, but let me know about it.

Majority of time is spent loading the categories, so what you can do to speed things up:

• Ensure the music is on a local drive (network drives have latency)
• Local drive is highly recommended to be SSD
• Use SQLite for additional information: https://manual.djsoft.net/radioboss/en/additional-information-storage.htm (it's the default in recent versions, but if you were using RadioBOSS before version 6.0 you could have APEv2 and it's slower).
• Organize the library, if it's really huge (100K+ records), and categories only use a tiny subset of it, you can create smaller libraries to fit the category needs. It's for situations where you filter out 90% of the tracks, it will spend a lot of time reading information for all those tracks.

 

[Altec]

Majority of time is spent loading the categories, so what you can do to speed things up:

• Ensure the music is on a local drive (network drives have latency)
• Local drive is highly recommended to be SSD
• Use SQLite for additional information: https://manual.djsoft.net/radioboss/en/additional-information-storage.htm (it's the default in recent versions, but if you were using RadioBOSS before version 6.0 you could have APEv2 and it's slower).
• Organize the library, if it's really huge (100K+ records), and categories only use a tiny subset of it, you can create smaller libraries to fit the category needs. It's for situations where you filter out 90% of the tracks, it will spend a lot of time reading information for all those tracks.

When I'm not using Additional Priorities Rules, it's really quick to generate, but when I put between 1 and 5 rules it's really slow... I think I'm not alone in this case.

I don't have a SSD, I have a Raid 5 on 3 disk

I'm using Rbdata, not SQLite because I have 2 studios running in the same time on two different pcs, for backup and broadcast rescue.

I have approximately, 8000 records.

It was just to inform you, I can understand if you can't do anything more to optimize generation latencies

Best Regard dear Dmitry

Altec

 

[djsoft]

There's always potential for improvement, e.g. it can process priority rules using all CPU's cores, making the process faster. We'll see it it can be implemented in one of the next updates.

 

[Altec]

There's always potential for improvement, e.g. it can process priority rules using all CPU's cores, making the process faster. We'll see it it can be implemented in one of the next updates.

Oh Nice, thank you for taking it in consideration, this is a good idea I think ! Won't this have an impact on the performance of the RadioBoss on air studio? Because sometimes Windows has trouble handling big loads.

 

[djsoft]

Won't this have an impact on the performance of the RadioBoss on air studio? Because sometimes Windows has trouble handling big loads.

RadioBOSS (playback engine) already uses multiple threads and has lots of optimizations, I don't think there's much room for improvement. Windows is certainly not a problem here, if you see that playback stutters or CPU load is heavy you should check DSP plugins that you use, and check what other software is running on the PC.

 

[Altec]

I'm not having any problems at the moment, it was just a hypothesis in case the PiGenerator launch was too heavy. My studios run on HyperV and I've balanced the performance well, RadioBoss is light and it's well balanced in terms of performance load.
A little reboot from time to time does the machine a world of good.

Thanks for your feedback