Re: idleStreams

mherger wrote: 
> 16s is a very long time. It certainly will cause issues streaming to 
> players with small buffers. Is there no way you can break that up into 
> smaller chunks? Or could you run the plugin as part of the scanner?
So the whole process (getting tracks for an SQLite query, some
filtering/sorting, writing a static playlist file) can take a while. For
4000 track > 2 minutes on my 10+ year old mac! Getting the tracks takes
most of the time. But even when I split the 4000 into chunks of 200 and
include -idlestreams- after each iteration, it will still block the UI
until it's finished. I'd like to believe that the included idlestreams
after each iteration will prevent problems with streaming (haven't
tested this yet) but a blocked UI for > 2 minutes is not nice either.
Even if users who want to create such a huge static playlist probably
know what to expect.

Would be nice if I could delegate this entire task/sub (not the whole
plugin) to the scanner to keep the UI unblocked.
But if I use the scanner to do this, will this count as a normal scan
process, i.e. trigger -Slim::Music::Import->stillScanning- and
-rescan,done-? I'm asking because I block certain functions in my
plugins while -stillScanning-. And I use subscriptions to -rescan, done-
in many plugins to trigger actions that I wouldn't want triggered in
this case. Can the scanner return a value with rescan,done that could
set this rescan,done apart from the one received after a normal scan
process?  

I use an importer in some plugins but that's part of and triggered by
the normal scanning process. Do you maybe have a code example/plugin in
mind that shows how a task that's not related to the normal scanning
process is delegated to / handled by the scanner?
Thank you.



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