loading great amount of buffered images slows down the program a lot java

Question

i'm setting up a custom cell renderer for a JTable, that has to contain an album cover image, that is from a byte[] taken with another library, the problem is that converting to a BufferedImage is so slow that in earlier version of the code the program wouldn't even start. Now the situation is better, but the lag is very noticeable nonetheless. Here is the code:

public class ImageCellRenderer extends DefaultTableCellRenderer {
   
   JLabel lbl = new JLabel();
   
   public Image[] getAlbumart() throws IOException {

      Image[] albumArt = new Image[allmymusic.size()];
          
      for (int i = 0; i < allmymusic.size(); i++) {
         byte[] data = allmymusic.get(i).albumImageData;
         ImageIO.setUseCache(false);
             
         if(allmymusic.get(i).albumImageData != null){

            BufferedImage bImage;                
            try(ByteArrayInputStream bis = new ByteArrayInputStream(data)) {
               bImage = ImageIO.read(bis);
            }            
            ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon(bImage);
            Image image = icon.getImage().getScaledInstance(50, 50, Image.SCALE_SMOOTH);
            // ImageIcon iconscaled = new ImageIcon(image);
            albumArt[i] = image;

         } else {
            albumArt[i] = null;
         }
      }
      return albumArt ;
   }

   @Override
   public Component getTableCellRendererComponent(JTable table, Object value, boolean isSelected, boolean hasFocus, int row, int column) {
      ImageIcon icon = new 
      ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("/images/defaultimage.png"));
      Image image = icon.getImage().getScaledInstance(50, 50, Image.SCALE_SMOOTH);
      Image[] albumArt;
        
       try {
          albumArt = getAlbumart(); 
          if(albumArt[row] == null){
             lbl.setIcon(new ImageIcon(image));
          } else {
             lbl.setIcon(new ImageIcon(albumArt[row]));
          }
       } catch (IOException ex) {      
          Logger.getLogger(ImageCellRenderer.class.getName())
                .log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
       }
       return lbl;
    }
}   

I accept alternative solutions.

Answer 1

Your_JTable.getColumnModel().getColumn(0).setCellRenderer((JTable jtable, Object value, boolean bln, boolean bln1, int i1, int i2) -> {
                JLabel label = new JLabel();
                label.setIcon((ImageIcon) value);
                return label;
            });

With this the trick should be done. It just sets the selected column to Have a JLabel inside of it with an imageIcon. Thank you @camickr for suggesting the solution.