Vista Media Center Music library troubleshooting and questions

[evident]

This is a fresh home premium install. Is there any option i can use to speed up responsiveness of the media center for my music collection?

going through my music collection in vista is painfully slow, ESPECIALLY when viewing by playlists. It will crawl when selecting one playlist to the next

When i had MCE2005 it was not an issue. It was snappy and great speed

My setup:
Media center PC running vista home premium - x2 4200 1gb ram
my uber rig running xp pro and my 70 gb music collection c2d e6600 2gb ram
both lanned to a ddwrt flashed wrt54gs

searching through tv shows (mpegs, mkv's, avi) are not a problem though.

Also, what do all you guys use to have flac playback on your vista media centers? and also, how to get it to show up in the interface?

* UPDATE 3/19*
Not completely fixed, but I think i'm onto the problem... I have a gut feeling that ethernet on my vista machine is running slow... I switched the ethernet port from the integrated marvell adapter to the nvidia integrated ethernet adapter and things are a little bit snappier, workable, but still noticably more sluggish than with MCE, which was silk smooth.

 

[bobdelt]

I just installed vista last night, and I'm having the same issues. It's slow and crashes a lot.

 

[loup garou]

Evident, is it still indexing your music perhaps? So your music is on a network share? I've noticed that WMP11 on my Vista machine is very slow browsing my library of music on another machine...haven't come to a resolution yet.

Check this out for adding filetypes to VMC:
http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/thread/166311.aspx

I've done the regedit on my MCE2005 machines before successfully.

 

[evident]

It should be done indexing. I left both computers on at night for a while. It's a bummer!!! vista's interface is much better than xp mce in my opinion andi don't want to go back, but if it's gonna take a minute to highlight one playlist to the next then it's not worth it

 

[evident]

bump, anyone?

 

[hondaf17]

Sorry bud, I installed 32-bit Vista Ultimate a couple days ago and so far Media Center is pretty quick. Good luck.

 

[evident]

bump