Improved Performance!

We are currently working on a new optimized version of Helium Music Manager which will run quicker.

The first stage of our optimization development affects the Track List views (detail mostly) and will be quicker compared to today’s implementation.
The initial read will work much as today (but be a bit quicker), however once an item has been read it will be cached and can then be fetched quickly for future reads.

An example from our initial testing sessions shows that reading 8,000 items today takes about 6.2 seconds (using an SQL Server 2008 Express database). When using the new system it takes about 3.5 – 4 seconds to perform the initial read and then subsequent reads are taking around 90-100 milliseconds to read and display the tracks again!

In the longer term we have plans for other optimizations as well; better caching in the Music Explorer (the expanding of nodes) and in the Album/Artist Browser.

These will be developed when this first optimization is completed and tested.
This first implementation is a big change which is requiring significant code rewrites as well as the retesting of most functions, therefore it will be some time before we can release it. In due course, we plan to release official Betas in the Customer Center to allow registered users to test the new system and give us feedback of how it works.