I got lost in this thread somewhere, Beavis, is he saying that he imports a song at 10 seconds and that equates to a huge 18 song disc in only three minutes. My discs import at 8 - 12 minutes total. What is wrong with that?

no, he's talking about importing from the hard drive.

importing zip files, not bin files right?

When I import zip files from the HD it only takes maybe 5 sec. per song.

Larry

There are MP3+G's

Sheesh, what's wrong with 5, 10, or even 15 seconds?

I'm confused on this issue also. Never saw this screen before. My Access says "Custom" and none of the players below are checked except "Use my current player", but to the right they are all installed players below it are checked to the right saying "Allow Access"

if you highlight the left side it will use as default and if you uncheck the right column it will disable it.

Bryant I am probably not explaining it correctly. According to One of the Admins on this site it should take about a 1 minute to import 180 files. I have 15,000 files. So at 180 per minute it should take me about around 1.5 hours. In fact I think there is a sticky on this forum that says you can do around 10,000 in 1.5 hours. So even if we go with that I should be able to do 15,000 songs in 2 to as much as 3 hours. It took me over 70 Hours to import 15,000 songs. 15 seconds a song is a long time when you have that many songs.

I see.

There has got to be something I am missing in the Hoster setup. I just imported 34 Zip files off of a thumb drive at a wopping 12 minutes. I have configured XP as best I can for performance. Even followed steps on a site called musicxp.net. Stil it is unbelievably slow. Anybody have any ideas.



Mike

Another point to look at is the hard drive. Since it is external the question is how is it connected to the laptop? Firewire or USB?

If USB is it version 1 or 2? (I assume the laptop would be version 2 capable since it is only 2 weeks old)

It is USB 2.0 I also try doing this with a USB 2.0 Zip drive, same results.

Usb Memory sticks are always gonna be slower, this I do know. But 12 minutes for that many songs is rediculous.

The only thing that I can tell you is what I get with my laptop and the other one we have here at the office for testing. Which I had posted the speeds/times earlier in this thread.

I know I saw your times. Can you think of anything possible that I could have set incorrectly that would cause such a lag? Can I be the only one in the history of Hoster who has experienced this?

I believe I'd look to the processor as a possibility.

Reason I say that is because there are some very good processors out there not made by Intel that, due to patents held by Intel, are forced to rely on the operating system to perform many of the functions peformed within the Intel processors.

In some circumstances, this can lead to poor performance, or even pc failure.
I had five crashes in as many months a couple of years ago. My techs kept blaming me, and finally I took the pc to a different shop. The tech there took one look and said the probem was the AMD processor, jerked it out, installed an Intel, and problem solved.

He explained what I stated above as the reason, saying it was the luck of the draw.

Been watching this from the first post, and been wondering right along if perhaps this were one of those isolated cases.

I'm not a tech, and could be out there in the daisies on this one for even mentioning this, but it seems nothing else has produced any relults.

George

This is not only one but 2 different Dell laptops both with Duo-Core Intel Processors. Both Laptops are doing the samething. I sent the first one back because we thought there was a problem with it but the 2nd one is just as slow to import.

are you sure nothing else is hogging the computer ?? did you look in your task manager ?

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/01/28/to...r_drain_issue/

Realize power drain is a totally different issue, but can't help wonder if there may not be more than one bug there, especially since your experience with two identical pc's has been the same.

Like I said, I may be out in the daisies on this one, but nothing else has made any sense.

George

I originally when in to msconfig and disabled everything in the startup section. As far as task manager not sure really what is what in there. What it reads is that CPU Usage is between 0 & 2%. You need to understand I am only running 2 programs on this laptop. Hoster and Ots (music). I have uninstalled any antivirus software and fire wall software. The only other software on this computer was installed by Dell. I can't see what else could be hogging up resources.