Change metadata DB lookup to be in background
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#30 Change metadata DB lookup to be in background
when adding videos to videomonkey's "Drop section" it takes the program about 15 seconds to recognize i dropped the files and about 3-5 seconds to add each file into the Que. this seems way to slow to be normal and I'm sure there is a way to speed this process up.
im running version 0.5 on Snow Leopard 10.6.1 on a MacBook Pro 17" with 4GB 667mhz RAM, 2.66GHZ Dual core and a 7,200rpm drive. (its pretty fast at everything else but this process with video monkey)
This is due to the slowness of the metadata search. Sometimes thetvdb.com is very slow. I will be fixing this by doing that search in the background. That should speed everything up. I've changed the title to reflect that.
The complexity of this fix is what to do while the metadata search is commencing. I may want to get rid of the automatic search entirely and let the user press a button to collect the metadata. I will probably have to disable to Start button while the metadata search is running. I also probably want to add a cancel button to abort the search. But any implementation starts with doing the search in the background.