Music library is slow to load when there's no wifi / data connection

[Rob Taylor]

When opening the music app without a data connection (e.g. in flight mode or poor signal quality) the music app is slow to list songs stored locally.

For instance putting my BQ device into flight mode and then opening the music app it was 15 seconds before I could play music.

[Victor Thompson (vthompson)]

Hi Rob, thanks for taking the time to file this bug and make Ubuntu better! Could you describe what was happening during this 15 seconds? Was the there a "loading" message? A circular spinning icon? Or were there items (albums, songs, etc) on the screen that simply did not have cover art/pictures filled in yet?

Thanks!

[Rob Taylor (q-rob-o)]

Hi Victor,

The circular spinning icon was visible during this time. So the 15 seconds was from the app being opened until the toolbar and list or artists / albums became visible.

Rob

[Victor Thompson (vthompson)]

Hi Rob, has this behaviour improved for you? There are a number of changes in the pipeline for the app and I was wondering there are data connection issues that should still be addressed. Thanks for any insight you can provide!

Victor

[Rob Taylor (q-rob-o)]

Hi Victor,

Thanks for the response.

The music app is faster now but that could be because I've hardly any music in the library anymore. My SD card got corrupted twice and I've not bothered copying much music into the library since. I'm happy to believe that it's faster now though if you want to close this issue.

Rob

[L D (leoubuntuone)]

Are you sure it's just in flight mode? Could you be experiencing this bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/music-app/+bug/1480265 but to a lesser extend due to the smaller music collection?