On Feb 12, 2008, at 11:43 PM, Greg Klanderman wrote:

>>>>>> Andy Grundman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> No, there isn't a concept of the server 'knowing about' SBCs.
>
> There's no need to know about SBCs; create the scaled artwork images
> as they are first needed, and then cache them thereafter.
>
> That way if you don't have an SBC, you never create the SBC version.
> If you have the artwork off in the web interface you don't create
> those versions.  And you don't slow down the scan time.  But when you
> finally break down and buy a controller, there's a little extra wait
> the first time you see each image, but after that it's cached and
> fast.

And then the user's first experience with browsing on Jive is really,  
really slow artwork loading.  We decided that was a bad experience.   
Disk space for caching some thumbnails is cheap, surely someone with a  
big music collection must agree with this. :)

Anyway, we know it's slow, so please see 
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7104 
  if you're interested in this issue.
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