search results overwrite playlist (when searching entire filesystem) about pman HOT 1 OPEN

It is now possible to clear the search state and thereby restore your original queue. There are still pretty obscene performance issues with performing the search and displaying the results.
The root(s) of the performance issues seems to be that

• The specified "media source" directories are scanned, recursively and in full, every time a global search is performed. No index or cache system is used. That's dumb
• The full TrackData is loaded (or created) for every media-item yielded by the scan.. Which is probably not necessary.
• Worst of all, the actual searching process doesn't even begin until all TrackData is loaded, and no results are displayed until the search is complete.
• I needs dem streams in mah life!

All of those are pretty obvious fixes, but a much better solution to the whole thing, in my opinion, is a well-designed, easily-extensible chunked "MediaCollection" system, which I've been working up to creating for some time.

from pman.