Videobox slow loading track view

[Darren123]

I have now put all music into sub genres to allow videobox latest update to see them, my problem now is that when selecting the sub category icon in the middle window it takes absolutely ages to show any tracks and hangs there, some of my folders have thousands of mp3 or video files of that genre is there a bug in the software,  am I doing something wrong, I upgraded from home jukebox for video reasons but home jukebox worked fast and sweet,  I can't get video box to work properly,  it looks amazing but I'm having so.much trouble getting it right, is there anyone else who had this trouble I'm lost now, I don't know how to solve this, if you can help it would be most appreciated

[Steve]

Videobox is different from Home Jukebox, Home jukebox is more efficient it stores tracks in a fast database by default, Videobox is an older product that started life by reading track filenames (before people got into tags) and so to use Videobox its best to split up your music as much as you can into lots of genre's with lots of sub-genres and tracks, if you put thousands of tracks or genre's in one folder it will take a month to load, create genre's with sub genre's and albums of no more than 24 tracks is my recommendation...

[Darren123]

Thankyou for your reply and valuable time steve, So with what you have suggested should I have purchased a different software from you, I love home jukebox nut it doesn't do music videos and karaoke, it would be better if home jukebox did these things, are there any better options, or updates to allow hone jukebox to do videos and karaoke, should I have purchased pub jukebox, I thought the way ahead was videobox, do the older versions of videobox load multiple files in a genre more quickly, is it just this latest release that suffers due to how you have to arrange the folders,

[Steve]

Videobox can be fast if you arrange your files and folders in a smart way, think of your genre's first, you dont want to have too many or you will be scrolling them forever, up to about 25 genre's is ok, and I would say that you dont want to have more than a couple of sub-genre's in each. as for tracks, think of each album as a CD, a cd usually contains upto about 24 tracks. if you stick to that you should be ok, of course this is not a rigid set of rules but I find it works just fine...

[Darren123]

I'm going to have to experiment I think, my jukebox has all genres, and it's got a to z of files in each, I'm hoping that making 0-9,a,b,c,d, etc to z in each genre and moving files into each alphabetically works out, there's not one genre I have that has a small amount of tracks so I will never be able to get 24 in each, I'm not using my jukebox as an album player, it has thousands of songs on it in each genre, did I buy the right software?, does the older version deal with things better ?