Is your computer getting hot ?

no more hotter than an average macbook pro of that generation, just thinking with all the fx i'm using in 2.1 as well that perhaps having that many smart crates isn't a good idea?

I don't think smart crates can make your computer run harder.

True. The only time when smart crates should be running after initial start up is : if you add new music since starting up and if you edit your tags in ssl..

ah cool, just trying to figure out why my library is taking 4/5 minutes to load up, thought it was the smart crates....

4-5 mins.. damm..
What version are you using?

Have you tried deleting the playlist history?

Erase your history . That help me on the past

you mean the history function? i'll give it a go later tonight. i'm using a firewire external so I guess it takes longer to load music that way, that and my 800+ crates lol

Yep I was gonna say that - clear your History - shouldn't take that long to load.

800+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
damn ok i dont feel so bad about mine now!

lol

yeah! its probably more to be fair. my scratch live folder on my external is around a 120mb! i've kept a record of every set i've played since early 2005, all catalogued under year, month and venue using sub crates - not a fan of the history feature. i also do the same for my prep crates, over time it does build up, but i can't delete it since i use it for reference!

ok just deleted the history and a load of unnecessary crates, got the load time to just under 4 minutes now, still slow... :(

if u have 800 crates ur askin 4 a rough load up time

what the hell you need 800 crates for homie....?

history of past gigs & prep crates from the last 5 years mostly!

why?

I do the exact same thing...

only solution is to upgrade the macbook!! lol

You could move those .crate files out of the CRATES folder so that all 900 dont load up each time you start serato.

Im pretty sure that would speed up your load times and still let you keep everything, if you wanted to back to one of the crates just drop it back into the CRATES folder.

No?

800+ seems excessive. If not, find a better way of archiving your old sets that doesn't make set up time twice as long.

We should be able to export crates as text files with a tracklisting. That's what I thought the playlist feature was gonna do, but that just uploads it for you to some site. I don't wanna upload it I might wanna keep it private. That would be so cool if you could export to a text file

scratchtools can export crates to txt files

history can export tracklisting

How?

page 28 in 57 manual

you need to play the tracks in your crate so it will make it to the history

you shouldn't have to play songs in crates so that they can show up in history just so that you can export to txt. so if i have a crate with 100 songs am i supposed to hit shift right arrow 100 times?

if you want to export your crates to txt file for what ever reason without pressing shift right arrow 100 times use scratchtools.

www.scratchtools.de

Oh yeah I forgot about that, Thanks. I probably only need to use history anyway.

Did it hurt you to type that message because you had to hit 353 keys and click a mouse to complain about having to hit shift <- 100 times

it did. computers should just read my thoughts and type for me.

Haha he got you there though lol. M Bezzle you should be a lawyer keep doing what you do just be make more money doing it

+1 saves as text or a CSV file for spreadseets or excel - look in history > export i think.

just an update on this, upgraded to snow leopard and WOW - 2 mins and its all loaded up, feel like i've got a new machine, incredible, very happy :)

You talking about the loading time of leopard or ssl, because 2 minutes is still a long time for scratch live to load up..

ssl, trust me 2 mins for MY libraby is fast!! lol

You need to tweak it, so it's under 20 secs, what if you're playing out and you have a crash - it's gonna take you 2 minutes to get the music restarted...

there's no tweaking 1000+ crates on a 2006 macbook pro! 2 mins is the best i'm gonna get. getting a new MBP next year so it'll come down to seconds then.

if it crashes i go cd

you have 1000+ crates............good lord man why?!?!

So he can tell what he played as his 5th track on sept 13th 1974.

^ precisely ;)