Ableton re-scans files all the time and then skips.
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:44 pm
Hello
Let me first describe the scenario.
I'm using Ableton to DJ with and so I drag the songs into the channels and then play them out through at M-Audio 10 channel soundcard into the carious channels of a DJ mixer.
All is fine except after a while of a song not being played i.e. a month, when I drag it into a channel in Ableton it still has the warp markers in but it is greyed out and ableton re-scans the file. This is ok although I don't understand why ableton needs to re-scan the file when it hasn't changed but what is not ok is that this process causes the currently playing files to skip occasionaly until it either finishes re-checking the file or I delete the file from the channel to stop the re-scanning.
Is there a way to stop this or to assign most of the system resources to playback rather than to re-scanning files. Its really annoying especially when you're live infront of an audience and the music starts cutting in and out. My laptop is nearly new so its not a case of it being a slow laptop and also even the slowest of machines can play 2 mp3's at once its not exactly using a lot of resources. What I assume is happening is that Ableton is trying to re-scan the file as quickly as possible and this is using all the system resources meaning that the playing file sometimes skips.
Please help
Many thanks
David
Let me first describe the scenario.
I'm using Ableton to DJ with and so I drag the songs into the channels and then play them out through at M-Audio 10 channel soundcard into the carious channels of a DJ mixer.
All is fine except after a while of a song not being played i.e. a month, when I drag it into a channel in Ableton it still has the warp markers in but it is greyed out and ableton re-scans the file. This is ok although I don't understand why ableton needs to re-scan the file when it hasn't changed but what is not ok is that this process causes the currently playing files to skip occasionaly until it either finishes re-checking the file or I delete the file from the channel to stop the re-scanning.
Is there a way to stop this or to assign most of the system resources to playback rather than to re-scanning files. Its really annoying especially when you're live infront of an audience and the music starts cutting in and out. My laptop is nearly new so its not a case of it being a slow laptop and also even the slowest of machines can play 2 mp3's at once its not exactly using a lot of resources. What I assume is happening is that Ableton is trying to re-scan the file as quickly as possible and this is using all the system resources meaning that the playing file sometimes skips.
Please help
Many thanks
David