OK, my take: 1. Regarding library size, Michael, I have always found it simple to blow up my test library size using a few hard links. If that doesn't help, just copy the library a few times to a subfolder structure.
2. Browsing speed is certainly one important factor but I have also made the experience that users with extremely large libraries find the whole system hard to use due to the excessive scanning times. The problem here is that this type of user adds a lot of tracks every day, that's why the library is so large. And if, at the same time, the scan takes several hours or even up to a full day (I'm talking about libraries well in excess of half a million tracks here) it means this type of user pretty much exclusively uses BMF. Which brings us to the next two points: 3. It looks like performance with the current SQLite degrades in a non-linear fashion with large libraries. This sees to have been better with MySQL. 4. BMF, at least with the 7.7.x versions wasn't up to the task either. Often, a not-up-to-date library means that browsing to a folder with new tracks will show these tracks but they will not play then. This currently makes a considerable part of my customer service requests from users with issues with iPeng and their SBs. I'm not sure whether 7.8.x does already fix this (I know there has been work on it), currently I recommend to try it out, --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 7, the Universal App for iOS 7* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101248 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
