okay guy's WHY????

by **rovingcowboy** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:45 am

Macarena wrote:If you mean folders for generating BPMs, on WinXP:
default: C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Local Settings\Temp\
user-defined: Options -> General -> Temp. Dir.

They are stored in the format "MMCache1411047879_1" "MMCache1411047879_2"... The numbers are obviously some random definition

thats where they should be then.

by **chrisjj** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 5:17 am

by **Macarena** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:02 am

chrisjj wrote:> converting it to a bigger image format. and saving it in mmcache\temp

No mmcache folder found here - where should I look?

If you mean folders for generating BPMs, on WinXP:
default: C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Local Settings\Temp\
user-defined: Options -> General -> Temp. Dir.

They are stored in the format "MMCache1411047879_1" "MMCache1411047879_2"... The numbers are obviously some random definition

by **rovingcowboy** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:55 am

what computer system you using winXp or WinVist.?

it is in different locations on them. i have Xp.

by **chrisjj** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:23 pm

I did search C:\Documents and Settings with [X] Search hidden files and folders ...

by **rovingcowboy** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:38 pm

its in the hidden files thats why you can't see it.

it is in the same loacation as the monkeys files in the documents and settings (all users) or (owner) then in one
of the folders in that folder. but you got to unhide the files to see them folders.

by **chrisjj** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:19 pm

> converting it to a bigger image format. and saving it in mmcache\temp

No mmcache folder found here - where should I look?

by **Macarena** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 2:05 pm

Anonymous wrote:According to the latest MM "4343 Added means to disable Album Art cache via .ini file" but I cannot find that option anywhere.
I looked in mediamonkey.ini & nothing is immediately apparent.
Nothing in options, online help & I looked in this forum.
Does anyone know please?
Many thanks.

I think it's clearly written there:

devs wrote:4343 Added means to disable Album Art cache via .ini file (DontUseCoversCache=1 in [System] section)

So, you just write a new line in the section [System] in your .ini file

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DontUseCoversCache=1

by **Guest** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 1:07 pm

According to the latest MM "4343 Added means to disable Album Art cache via .ini file" but I cannot find that option anywhere.
I looked in mediamonkey.ini & nothing is immediately apparent.
Nothing in options, online help & I looked in this forum.
Does anyone know please?
Many thanks.

by **K1LL3M** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 3:34 am

I have no problem with the temp cache, especially if it speeds things up, but why does it have to create a new one every time its opened.

58 replicated cache directories in my temp folder for almost a gig in space (my temp directory is on its own 40gig drive), that ain't right

Use the old and append or start new and delete on exit.

by **Teknojnky** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 6:15 pm

possibly the best solution is like an internet browser:

- allow for specfication of size and location of hard drive image cache
- allow for specification of size of memory cache

internet explorer allows for 'temporary internet files' max size and location, firefox allows for both memory and disk cache sizes.

by **rovingcowboy** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 6:11 pm

the memory leak i was thinking of was the one in the other thread where they thought they had one dealing with scanning.
but you seen that thread too.

i thought this might be the cause of that.

petrcbr i do use the timed cleanup the point is if monkey is using it at a temp cache then it should be emptied on exit of media monkey. otherwise it is not temp.
and loading uncompressed files is not faster. when you can compress it down to jpg and get it smaller yet better quailty then bmp. because i got them set to " 600 dpi " instead of the lower one i use to have and they load faster and look better. bmp format is only allowed 300 dpi.

by **cmx** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 6:06 pm

I use this.

http://www.ccleaner.com/

Bulletproof, complete, customizable(keep certain cookies, etc.),free.

I have it set to auto nuke everything on windows restart. It does it transparently and completely- even .dat files.

by **PetrCBR** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 2:48 pm

This cache is used for huge speed improvement in Album Art View Modes. I'll explain : in AA view mode every cover need to be loaded (from tag or file), resized and painted. Reading info about cover storage takes some time, resizing can take very long time (in case original cover is in really big resolution). So for best performance we're using covers cache where covers are already resized, uncompressed (fastest to load) and optimized for fast loading and showing. In future versions we can add any option to disable this cache, but in this stage i don't think it's necessary.

BTW : you can use windows scheduling system for cleaning up temp folder.

by **Teknojnky** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:03 pm

thats not a memory leak, its a temp file/folder situation that doesn't seem to get cleaned up.

a memory leak is when memory (RAM) gets allocated and does not get released when the app is closed.

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