foobar2000 v1.3 upcoming changes
2013-07-25 12:35:15
The upcoming foobar2000 v1.3 release will address various performance problems with very large music libraries. Background: One of the key issues with foobar2000 metadb design is that it stores a complete copy of file's text metadata in its cache. This includes:misplaced cuesheets EAC logs lyrics epic novels misplaced base64 encoded pictures other weird stuff that people come up with .. which leads to:extreme memory usage slow startup and shutdown poor search performance To address the above issue, foobar2000 v1.3 metadb will selectively ignore specific metadata records read from the files - mainly data that does not need to be readily available for displaying in playlist, library viewers, etc. This will not affect daily use; properties dialog will still be able to show complete metadata by reading it from affected files directly. If your component needs to display such data - lyrics in particular - please change your code to fetch it from the file directly on-demand. Example:static bool getInfoFromFile(metadb_handle_ptr inHandle, file_info & outInfo, abort_callback & abort) { try { input_info_reader::ptr reader; input_entry::g_open_for_info_read(reader, NULL, inHandle->get_path(), abort ); reader->get_info( inHandle->get_subsong_index(), outInfo, abort ); return true; } catch(exception_aborted) { throw; } catch(...) { outInfo.reset(); return false; } } Thank you for your attention.