Virtual Channels freezing in browser

Playground Virtual Channels
#1

I've got a sizable personal library, and when I try to create virtual channels, the browser window constantly freezes because of the number of items that populate the screen before being able to set any type of smart filters. Would be great to just show the filtered items by text, or hide them somehow. Thanks all

#2

Which browser?

#3

Safari, on Macbook Pro 2020 (not M1)

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#4

Could you describe what your Virtual Channel is displaying that's overloading the browser?

Do you have like 300 movies or episodes applied to it?

#5

So what happens is, I have a movie library of about 5,000 movies. When I create a virtual channel and go to select "Movie" from the Smart Filter category, it will automatically try to populate the channel with every movie I have, the browser will freeze, and I can't continue adding more filters to the rule. But yes, it will attempt to display everything, and the freeze happens more frequently when TV Shows are in the mix, because they draw in every episode as well. I have not been able to test what the lower limit for having the page run smoothly, sorry, but it seems to work okay for me when there are less than 500 or so items populating.

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#6

OK great. Thanks for the report.

It's pretty hard to provide an interface to let you browse/select your whole library, but also ensure the browser isn't completely destroyed by the weight added from a large library.

We're investigating making these things more efficient in the browser.

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#7

Something I think might help would be when you're building a Virtual Channel in Simple Mode, that the channel doesn't auto populate on every click - maybe there's a "Submit" button or something to apply all of your filter choices, instead of one at a time. I say that because if I'm trying to build a channel, sometimes I can't even add all the filters I want before it freezes. If I want to make a channel of 90's Comedy movies, if I start creating a virtual channel with just one part of the filter (just Movies, Just Comedies, or just 90s), it still populates a number that is overwhelming.