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SongKong - is it possible to skip building the final report entirely?

#21

Hi Paul, resurrecting this post to ask about the ‘Status Report’.

I have been running it for a while, still at about 70%. I will provide the full final report for you guys if you’d like, feels like it could be a good test case.

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The question is: I’ve noticed something quite interesting. If the report is running with the window open, all my 12 cores fire to 100%, and it feels like it’s faster (might be placebo). If I minimize SongKong, CPUs go quiet to about 10-20%.

Is this intended? Why the difference?

#22

Hi, have actually been working on Status Report performance expect some improvements in the next release.

No certainly not intended, its possible that Windows is doing something

Apparently Windows 10/11 may lower CPU frequency for background apps and apply EcoQoS to background threads, especially on Laptops or if using balanced power plans

You could force the task to be high priority by:

  • Opening Task Manager
  • Switch to Details tab
  • Find SongKong (if there a re two select th eone with the higher value in Memory Column)
  • Right click, select Priority and change to High
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#23

Raising the priority to high (even real time) makes a HUGE difference when Song Kong is in focus and maximized - however, if it’s not, it seems like Windows is downgrading its priority on its own because the CPU goes down again. I guess it’s dynamically prioritizing memory / processing power to what you’re using.

Maybe you could add a dropdown at the bottom left of the window where you could set this priority? Not sure if it’s doable because of W11/10 internal permissions but that would help a lot.

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#24

It seems it is possible, I will consider this idea further, would not want it on by default as will slow everthing else down but I can see would be useful if using your computer as a workhorse to get the task done and want it done as fast as possible.

Looking forward to seeing the report. I should warn you once Completed bar is full the process has not finished, its mean all the files have been processed but then we have to actually generate the report pages (Report Creation bar) which cannot be started until all the songs have been processed so that will take some additional time.