ftintitle: extremely slow

[mfiano]

ftintitle plugin, when called manually after import takes an incredibly long time to complete - infact the import with all the MB queries was faster. On top of this, its output printed seems to be in a completely random order, with several minutes between each line printed. Also the CPU usage is between 1-30% for a single CPU core for beets. It's as if it is mostly idle.

[sampsyo]

That's odd. A quick test here didn't reproduce the problem:

$ time beet ftintitle
beet ftintitle  0.50s user 0.16s system 97% cpu 0.670 total

Can you please include your configuration and a verbose log? And perhaps check whether this happens for some tracks but not for others?

[mfiano]

I ran watch lsof ... to check out exactly what it was working on, and it seems to spend a long time on flac files compared to lossy files. I suspect it is reading the whole file stream and then writing the whole thing back to disk when it writes the tags, probably with a really small chunk size.

[sampsyo]

OK! But your configuration and the verbose log would still be helpful.

[stale]

Is this still relevant? If so, what is blocking it? Is there anything you can do to help move it forward?

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