Places wheel in browser keeps spinning

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Re: Places wheel in browser keeps spinning

Post by VT2 » Fri Jan 29, 2021 11:10 pm

I just upgraded from v9 - the same thing in v10 for me, endless indexing activity icon, v9 had no such issue (spinning was always about 15-20 seconds).
Win10 here.

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Re: Places wheel in browser keeps spinning

Post by Synthbuilder » Mon Feb 01, 2021 1:40 pm

Yeah, for me too. I updated to 10 a few months ago. Very occasionally, the spinning thing will disappear but for no reason it'll appear again and then never stops for that session.

I contacted support and they said, to paraphrase, 'it's cosmetic, deal with it'.

If it wasn't for all the other cool things in Live 10 I'd have gone back to Live 9. Yeah, it bugs me that much. In the end I just collapsed the browser and try not to think about it.

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Re: Places wheel in browser keeps spinning

Post by Angstrom » Mon Feb 01, 2021 11:54 pm

Synthbuilder wrote:
Mon Feb 01, 2021 1:40 pm

I contacted support and they said, to paraphrase, 'it's cosmetic, deal with it'.
It's definitely not just cosmetic and I can provide simple proof.

If the browser spinner is spinning and I try to load a song with a lot of waves then the load bar crawls in slow motion. If I then kill the indexer process the status bar shoots to the end and all the waves load in under a second.

So to be clear:
if the indexer is running in TaskManager (spinner spinning) = big songs take a few minutes to load.
indexer killed in Task Manager so that the spinner disappears = the song will now load within 1 second.

that's not "cosmetic"

I can easily provide screen recordings of this happening, and it's very clear to see how killing the process allows the "stuck" waves to load. Repeatable.

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Re: Places wheel in browser keeps spinning

Post by murcalumis » Fri Feb 12, 2021 10:55 pm

How many people are not reporting this issue or bug? I am. Buggin.' Lame. Hurry up 11! Assuming 11 solves the bloody issue.

Curious if people are also "missing media files"?

Curious thing is that the 7 files I am missing are from Unnatural Selection by Puremagnetik. This pack was free. However, I downloaded it again and they are still "missing." Is that why the wheel keeps going?

This is what support suggested:

Suggested articles

How to reset Live's Library
Managing content in Places
Live Packs are installed but not displaying in the Browser
Empty content folders after Pack installation
Reducing the CPU load

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Re: Places wheel in browser keeps spinning

Post by Synthbuilder » Sat Feb 13, 2021 8:47 am

Angstrom wrote:
Mon Feb 01, 2021 11:54 pm
It's definitely not just cosmetic and I can provide simple proof....
I didn't think it was cosmetic either. But that's what they said. I should have persevered with support but I've been down that road before...

Has it been fixed in Live 11?

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Re: Places wheel in browser keeps spinning

Post by murcalumis » Sat Feb 13, 2021 5:38 pm

Synthbuilder wrote:
Sat Feb 13, 2021 8:47 am
Angstrom wrote:
Mon Feb 01, 2021 11:54 pm
It's definitely not just cosmetic and I can provide simple proof....
I didn't think it was cosmetic either. But that's what they said. I should have persevered with support but I've been down that road before...

Has it been fixed in Live 11?
11 isn't live yet...we'll find out on 2/23

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Re: Places wheel in browser keeps spinning

Post by murcalumis » Mon Feb 22, 2021 12:18 pm

FIXED for me. The pack I mentioned above was reloaded a second time and it finally stopped spinning. Mine was indeed due to missing files. Happened after I upgraded from 9 to 10. If it happens with a 10 to 11 upgrade I know where to start.

For others it might be what support suggested: Suggested articles

How to reset Live's Library
Managing content in Places
Live Packs are installed but not displaying in the Browser
Empty content folders after Pack installation
Reducing the CPU load

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Re: Places wheel in browser keeps spinning

Post by loose meds » Wed Mar 17, 2021 2:19 pm

thank you for this info!!!

i reset library and already no wheel :!:

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Re: Places wheel in browser keeps spinning

Post by dallozdoppler » Wed Jan 18, 2023 2:03 am

I'm still having an issue with this. It just spins forever.

Fresh install on new PC, nothing added to library and no plugins

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Re: Places wheel in browser keeps spinning

Post by Synthbuilder » Wed Jan 18, 2023 8:27 am

dallozdoppler wrote:
Wed Jan 18, 2023 2:03 am
I'm still having an issue with this. It just spins forever.
It continued doing it for me too all the time I was on the later versions of Live 10. Since I couldn't run Live 11 on my old Win 7 computer, I bought a new computer and installed Live 11. Not seen the wheel since.

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Re: Places wheel in browser keeps spinning

Post by dallozdoppler » Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:51 pm

Synthbuilder wrote:
Wed Jan 18, 2023 8:27 am
dallozdoppler wrote:
Wed Jan 18, 2023 2:03 am
I'm still having an issue with this. It just spins forever.
It continued doing it for me too all the time I was on the later versions of Live 10. Since I couldn't run Live 11 on my old Win 7 computer, I bought a new computer and installed Live 11. Not seen the wheel since.
Thanks for the answer. I wonder if this problem has been fixed for most since switching to 11. I currently can't afford the upgrade so I'm a bit disappointed.

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Re: Places wheel in browser keeps spinning

Post by Punky921 » Tue Jan 31, 2023 5:25 am

I have Ableton 11, and it's still happening to me.

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Re: Places wheel in browser keeps spinning

Post by weswook » Thu Mar 02, 2023 5:19 pm

Still happening Live 11.2.10

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Re: Places wheel in browser keeps spinning

Post by hoping2produce » Thu Jun 08, 2023 11:20 pm

anyone have any luck in fixing this? I did not experience this issue until the latest update. Now, places spins for no real reason (that I can tell). It will spin, stop, and then start spinning again while I'm working on a track. The UI lags horribly when this happens.

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Re: Places wheel in browser keeps spinning

Post by pairajacks » Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:24 pm

"Places" spins continuously for me. I'm on the latest version for 10, 10.1.43

Why is there no comment from Ableton??? It appears this is eating up CPU time

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