mkozlows Wrote: > > The only reason I see for the bare filesystem view is speed, but it > seems unlikely to me that you couldn't get the speed improvements with > a better UI. It might be HARDER to do that way, but I really think > it's worth the effort
Careful. You're getting very close to calling the (largely volunteer) developers lazy, which they patently are not. I'd take the time to read up on the prior discussion of this issue. From what I understand the slow down is ENTIRELY due to having to look up meta data for each file, so the only way to speed things up is to not do the lookup. Of course, as usual, if I'm wrong feel free to submit a patch :) mkozlows Wrote: > > Having your songs display inconsistently depending on how you browsed > to them is an ugly bit of UI that violates user expectations and is > uglier to boot. > To be fair, you're browsing two seperate things. In one case you're browsing the database of known tracks, in the other you are (quite literally) browsing the music folder. One of the past problems with browse music folder was that it wouldn't pick up new files that weren't in the db yet, for obvious reasons. This is now fixed (at least I think it is) and I, for one, prefer it this way. When I resort to looking in the folder I want to see what is really there, not what's in the db. There are countless other ways to do that. If I were you, I would focus on your key problem - that the existing By Artist, By Title, By Album, etc, don't fit your needs. Given that all meta data is now in a db it should be possible to allow users to define their own browse criteria. I have used a HTPC frontend app called Meedio which allows just that, and it's a truly excellent idea. By writing simple queries I can configure exactly how the songs should be arranged & filtered, and I can have as many different views as I like. I think something like that would be great in SlimServer, and should avoid the need for you (or 99% of other users) to go into Browse Folder at all. -- radish _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
