if you use the "cache" mode for images you won't have a problem in that regard...

I have the cache mode enabled. Maybe i am incorrect but this his how I think MC works with the images;

I upload an album and MC dynamically loads all the images it needs when called upon. So every time I load a page all images are regenerated. So I think that's why its taking a very long time to load the albums, because mine high resolution images are dynamically downsized to the sizes MC needs.

So I thought If I set things to static all images are downsized and saved to the thumbs folder so MC can call it up again when it needs them, so faster loading of my site.

I have red in an old topic (2012) to set the pagination for the pages wich have slow loading, I can find this setting on the songs and albums pages but not for bands page, however I prefer to have no pagination on bands page...

Also just an other question I have ran in to, I have over 200 genres and if I look at them in the backend the are not sorted alphabetical but (I am guessing here) on the order of added to MC. Is there a way to sort them alphabetically?

Thanks for your time,

Appie

no, it does not work like that. that's why the cache is for. it only generates it once (the first time) and this way they are already generated...

to sort genred alphabetically a small code modification would be needed..

Okay those were my first thoughts for the images also but if I look in the thumbs_115 and thumbs_40 folders with filezilla there are no images / thumbs there, thats why I asked my first question. I can generate them my self but dont know how they are stored, something like thumb_115_xxxxxx.jpg maybe???

I have locally already resized al album covers to 430x430 it saves almost 1.4 Gb and its loading faster now on my local server, but not at lightning speed ...

Do I also need to pay extra for that small modification or can you tell me what to chance in what file, so I do it my self..

Hello,

I really don't understand the issue.. you don't need to do any resize whatsoever, all is done automatically for you, and in the "cache" mode, it is very efficient...
your thumbnails do not appear?

if you know MySQL you can do the modification yourself..

I understand that all should be done automatically, but aren't the resized images need to be stored in the thumbs directories, they are empty.
What are the directories for if not for storing the resized images?

Only in dynamic mode I see al images, so yes its working but I think that because the thumb directories are empty (no thumbs whatsoever in there) they need to get made every time a page has to load, so slower loading times.

Something like this I supose:

SELECT * FROM muscol_genres ORDER BY `muscol_genres`.`genre_name` ASC;

No, they are not stored in that directory. they are stored in the CACHE directory!
so no, if you have slow loading times, it has nothing to do with that, because the images are generated only once and you can find them in the /cache/muscol folder

Aha okay thanks for that info....

About my genres I have them all alphabetical in the msql data base with the code mentioned above. but in the backend its still on id order??
Do I miss something here...?

Thanks