Large Playlist Freezes RadioDJ?

Someone tweeted me recently to say they were going to try RadioDJ free radio play out software.

Later on I received this Post:

@DJGaryBaldy After spending time with RadioDJ it isn't looking good

It Can't seem to handle loading a large playlist without freezing

Marius the author of the software stated this before on the forums about playlists:

I don't recommend you to load a single large playlist

Otherwise it will slow the program down

The user went on to mention the number 25,000 in a later Tweet regarding loading the playlist into Winamp.

Our key library is a randomized playlist of over 25,000 tracks

If that's the size playlist he was trying to load into RadioDJ then there's no wonder RadioDJ froze.

Its down to the processing power of your PC & the amount of connections MySQL can handle

It's NOT a limitation of RadioDJ!

We'd imagine other radio automation software would lock up, crash and freeze if you tried loading a 25,000 track playlist into it.

Rather than trying to load huge playlists why not let RadioDJ do what it does best?

Using track rotations is a better way to automate your music

You can choose which categories/rotations to load at a set times each day.

I've never had RadioDJ crash on me when loading playlists and
that's because I've never asked the program to do more than it can handle

If you really need to use playlists try breaking them down into smaller chunks.

Make playlists in 2 or 4 hour blocks instead & load those playlists via events at the time you want them.

Stop trying to be clever by loading huge playlists into RadioDJ

It will cause problems for you. Don't say you weren't warned!

With the newer versions of RadioDJ the amount of time a playlist can be calculated from a rotation with the playlist builder is 60 minutes