Funny thing (Skip loading songs)

[Rhyzak]

So I just found this out completely by an unusual amount of random stupid things i was doing.

I can skip the whole wait 5 minutes for game to load 5000+ songs and the game will load in like 5 seconds, while still having all the songs there to play like normal. Only thing it doesn't let the game do is not play any songs on the main menu in the background (Jukebox).

So I was just charting songs like usual and every time I clicked on test in Phase Shift I would always have to wait ages for game to load. So I just randomly decided to make a new folder in phase Shifts directory called "music 2" with nothing in it so I could just change the directory easily in the config file for the music's path.

Once I had done that I clicked test in phase shift again and the game loaded without even bothering to load any songs as expected. So I tested the chart like usual then went to go back out. As I quickly skipped back out to the menu I noticed that all the folders were still there in the song selection. So I went through and each one works fine.

I tried to load the game normally but it doesn't show any folders like you would expect it to. So I tried loading it through EOF again and it still had all the songs in the game but didn't bother loading any at the start.

So considering that you can still add songs to the game if you drag them into the music folder and you can play them without having to load the game up again unless you were to play with more than 1 person online.

Is the game really only loading all those songs just to play them on the Jukebox?

[knapman [FD]]

Older versions of the game did have a basic scan that was faster, but as the project progressed and we were looking into expanded features such as career mode and we were also doing tests with online functionality having filtered lists, and a couple of other bits, we ended up going with a more comprehensive scan of the songs.

The jukebox benefits from that information but it wasn't the reason for doing it, we wouldn't slow the game load time down for something unimportant.

[Rhyzak]

Ok sweet.

Thanx for the reply

[benmclean]

Jan 22, 2014 13:32:38 GMT knapman [FD] said:

we were looking into expanded features such as career mode and we were also doing tests with online functionality having filtered lists, and a couple of other bits, we ended up going with a more comprehensive scan of the songs. ... we wouldn't slow the game load time down for something unimportant.

Those bits would be unimportant if you aren't using them this time. Couldn't somebody make a command line option to skip this scan? It can take a loooong time if you have a large collection.

(later edit) Oh wait, never mind, I found it. It's undocumented, but it works.

You say "C:\Program Files (x86)\Phase Shift\phase_shift.exe" "your songs folder" and that seems to skip the long scan for some reason. Say "/p" if you'want to point the folder to a specific song you're testing.

[Trigger_b0y]

Dec 28, 2016 22:08:27 GMT benmclean said:

(later edit) Oh wait, never mind, I found it. It's undocumented, but it works.

You say "C:\Program Files (x86)\Phase Shift\phase_shift.exe" "your songs folder" and that seems to skip the long scan for some reason. Say "/p" if you'want to point the folder to a specific song you're testing.

EDIT: i found solution.
EDIT2: dwsk.proboards.com/thread/2558/fast-load-guide