viewing long playlists, ipod 80GB

[Zardoz]

Once again apologies if this is covered elsewhere.

If I attempt to view (or search within) very large playlists, while the playlist is playing it takes a very very long time. If I do the same when I have nothing playing its pretty quick to display result. I'm assuming this has something to do with available memory? Is there anything I can do to improve it (behaviour not memory)?

Dircache is off, Database not initialised, using r17693

thanks

[ryran]

dircache > on

[JdGordon]

dircache wont affect this...

is the playlist a m3u or an inram one?

[Lear]

Actually, the dircache will affect this. With it enabled, the playlist viewer no longer needs to access the playlist file to get the filenames (once a background scanning thread in playlist.c has finished).

[Zardoz]

Thanks for the replies. Playlist is m3u8 if that makes any difference - what is an inram playlist? I'll try same with dircache on....

edit: well with very large playlists (5000 tracks plus) having dircache on made a noticeable difference but then the disk stays spinning for a lot longer when I start/resume playback so I guess battery tradeoff is the thing to consider here. I rarely use the view/search playlist function and usually play a shuffled playlist of all tracks (17500+). I think I'll stick with dircache off and just stop playback if I really need to view lists....and I can live with lag in the filetree 

Question: what is an inram playlist??