MythTV Search Far Too Slow With Large Collection

[Raptor Ramjet]

I'm 51, have played in bands since I was 15, and, thanks to recording nearly every rehearsal, nearly every gig, and ripping all my CDs etc. I have built up a *HUGE* music collection of over 40,000 tracks !

When I go to the "Search" page in Myth music this causes me a problem as the "real time" nature of the search means the search facility is currently unusable.

The problem is that the search is attempting to update the list of results as each key is pressed and, due to the number of tracks available, this is *totally* unresponsive. There is a lag of anything up to about 3 minutes between pressing a key and getting the key echoed back to the text box and the list updated. e.g. If I want to search for "Section 25" (one of the bands I played in) then after pressing the "S" key the box locks up for over 3 minutes before I can press the "e" key.

I would therefore like to ask that the search screen is amended so that there is a checkbox which toggles "real time" search on or off (default can be "on") and a button which will initiate the search. The checkbox could appear to the left of the "search in" drop down and the "search now" (or whatever text is thought suitable) button could appear to the right of the "search" text box.

Unfortunately this lag means that the search facility is currently unusable with my collection and, as I'm playing in 4 bands at the moment I'm only going to be adding more tracks to my collection :)

Cheers.