Question about file info offered as option in Preferences > Playlist

[stefanos82]

In the above screenshot, I can see that option which is very useful for me, but the description suggests to better avoid it as it's taking time to parse all files to get their information all as a whole.

My question is, how difficult is it to first load all files from a specific directory and as soon as the load finishes, to go through files one by one and fetch their info data?

From my experience with VideoLAN, this is how they do this and they use Qt as their UI framework too.

I have tried to read the code, but I would get in a dead end in prefplaylist.cpp with two class methods that don't say much about the actual file info mechanism:

void PrefPlaylist::setAutoGetInfo(bool b) {
	getinfo_check->setChecked(b);
}

bool PrefPlaylist::autoGetInfo() {
	return getinfo_check->isChecked();
}

Any feedback on this please?

Thank you.

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[stefanos82]

@smplayer-dev can we transfer this ticket in Discussions?

[stefanos82]

Cheers @smplayer-dev for transferring it here.

I'm interested in learning how to implement this, but I need guidance.

Where should I look to figure out what delays the metadata loading?

It takes ages, exaggeratedly so to speak, to load info even for 10 audio files, which is insane!