Ever since I upgraded last weekend to 2008, the native media player -- which is actually not too bad on the controls front, as a car player -- seems to have truly execrable touch response.

I can hear the screen manager clicking when it feels my touching a button, but there can be up to several seconds delay either before the control is highlighted, or before anything actually happens.

I don't recall it being that pissy on 2007; has anyone else seen this problem? It makes adjusting the volume while driving a crashing bore...

never seen it here, iirc...

Further investigation -- we always do that *after we post*, right? :-) -- suggests it might have been a corrupted internal table. I flushed Now Playing, and then re-added my entire 900 track list, and now it's behaving better. Not as well as on 2007, but still better.

I couldn't play *anything* from the library directly, though.

Anyone got any better suggestions for a music player suitable for car-rack-mount use? I need play/pause, skip, and preferably track-repeat (I commit karaoke pretty regularly; that's how I learn songs) as Big Buttons, and really tight UI response.

i have never put 900 songs in there, so i caant tell if thats a potential reason (some kind of problem in the playlist or metadata management that makes it slow down with large number of files, maybe?)...

I've had close to that many before, any anything over 500 the player gets a bit flaky. You might want to consider Canola or another more robust media player if you have larger song lists.

Lots of programs have internal data structure design that becomes ... pathological when the lists get big.

Canola {is,was} way too slow and complicated for driving, for me.

You may want to take a look at MediaBox. I'm using it for driving and it doesn't choke when you have thousands of songs.