Comment 10 for bug 1438383

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Max Linke (max-linke) wrote : Re: [Bug 1438383] Re: Waveforms hitch when clicking on new tracks

On 03/31/2015 05:17 PM, Owen Williams wrote:
> This is normal behavior, there is one thread doing both the UI and
> library work (I think? there may be some cases where we do stuff in the
> background), so when the library is doing something complicated (loading
> a new track) it might cause the GUI to pause. The audio thread is kept
> higher priority to prevent dropouts.
>
> We do constantly work on this type of performance issue, but for now I'm
> going to say this is Invalid because it's a result of the design we've
> chosen.

I actually took great care to avoid this as much as possible.

@mnmlguy how did you upgrade to 1.12? I think we mention during an
upgrade that the you should rescan your library to discover covers for
tracks and avoid these UI-freezes when you run mixxx.

Can you test if running the library scanner fixes the issues for you.