1/5/2024 0 Comments Songkong sucksI echo the other people’s comments: Picard is very good, but my experience is that with Picard, as with many other pieces of software, it’s always wise to save work yourself a few times an hour, or do your work in small enough batches that you limit how much work you can lose between saves. I came to save all my changes and disaster - Picard crashed with a spinning beachball.… ![]() I spent the best part of 12 hours using Picard to sort out my files. I decided to tidy up my library, 6000 or so FLAC files. Also, I am aware that v2.0 is still in development - might it be possible that this will operate a little more robustly? I suspect that this is not a simple fix and am reluctant to raise a new ticket given the current backlog. If they already have MBIDs and it is just a retagging exercise, however, then Picard ought not to complain. Even assuming they are all in the MusicBrainz database, some human review will be required afterwards, so some smaller chunking would make the task easier. That said, one should ask why load even 5,000 tracks in one go? If they are only scantily tagged and the hope is that Picard will fix them, then that is a bit optimistic. Picard is a great program (and free) but the random nature of this problem is its most irritating feature and puts off a good many new users who might otherwise become useful contributors to the MusicBrainz community. ![]() Frequently, it is not a crash, but just a (longish) temporary non-responsiveness, which may be reduced by increasing the priority of the process. The cause of the lock-ups/hangs has not been explained. Seems pretty vague to me and not addressing the underlying problem. We should have some sort of alert for these when someone tries to load more than 5k or 10k files in one go A ticket that saysįairly often we get messages from users like “I loaded 50k files on Picard and it’s going very slowly”. ![]() 50,000 maybe, but Picard ought not to lock up at just 5000. It doesn’t seem right to me that 5000 files should cause a problem.
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