Cached Local Library Listing

[mathieugoodman]

Hello,

I have a large local library of MP3+G files and it takes a few minutes for PiKaraoke to read it when loading. Since my library rarely changes, would it be possible to either preload the list as a file or have it cached somehow in a way that it doesn't need to rescan the entire directory every time I start up PiKaraoke?

Thanks!

[RecursiveFunctions]

Maybe one way to go about this is like so:

ls > ~/pikaraoke-songs/cache

I'd have to take a closer look under the hood to understand how pikaraoke is getting all the songs

[LouOtway]

I'm in a similar position, have about 90k tracks locally, they will likely never be updated and so it's a shame to build that list time and again on startup.

The code to build the local song list is here:

pikaraoke/karaoke.py

Line 306 in 0741c2c

def get_available_songs(self):

To cache this between sessions you'd need to make some kind of list of tracks, maybe as a simple flat file or as a JSON object and load it.

Perhaps a new command line argumnent could be added to point at an existing tracklist and, if it exists, to just use it?