On Feb 12, 2008, at 4:36 PM, Phil Meyer wrote: >> Maybe generating four thumbnails for every artwork image wasn't >> such a >> good idea? What happens when somebody is embedding images in audio >> files for every track instead of using a cover/folder.jpg? Does it >> generate four thumbnails for every track? Yikes. >> > I have started to embed images in each song, for songs extracted > from CD singles (don't normally bother for albums). However, that > could still be a significant number of songs to be generating cached > copies of. I'm not sure I'm fond of the pre-caching on scan change > either, if it's going to adversely affect scan time (haven't done a > rescan for some time - I guess it's only a problem for rescanning - > it doesn't check all cached artwork on a "scan for new and changed > files"?) > > There's also the cache size and number of files to consider. I > recently did a full virus scan (not through choice - a new firewall > insisted on doing it), and there wasn't an option to ignore the > squeezecenter cache folder. It took ages (several hours), because > of the sheer number of artwork files in the cache. > > Is there any cache management to recycle the oldest images, to keep > the size/number of cached files down?
You can't have it both ways... if you want fast browsing of artwork on Jive and via the web, the images need to be cached. _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
