> My server is a P4 with 640MB, with a 40GB OS drive and two > 200GB music drives. The web interface was snappy when I had > only a few dozen albums, but with 330, it's downright > sluggish. For example, displaying the artists list generally > takes 5-10 seconds. I'm not looking forward to when I have > all 1300 albums ripped to the system!
My main server is a 1.5ghz P4 with 1mb or RAM, and I have another another on a 2.3ghz, 0.5mbRAM laptop, both running XP Pro SP2. I have about 650 albums held in flac format on a 300gb Maxtor One Touch (USB 2). I stream PCM to a Squeezebox 1 wirelessly. I find the web interface exasperatingly slow (not infrequently I get quite annoyed waiting for it too list items and find myself cursing the thing). About two weks ago I upgraded from SS 5.4.1 to the 6*** release listed on the SlimDevices home page but found that there was no performance improvement and that whenever I used the remote (my favoured method for controlling my Squeezebox) to list the music the audio would stall for seconds at a time (sometimes over 10!)and the bottons became unresponsive. I reverted back to 5.4.1 as the behaviour of the Remote is better (but certainly not perfect... it is still nowhere near as responsive to button presses as I would like and listing music still takes far too long). I'd hate to think what it would be like if I had 1300 albums (i.e. twice as many as current)! As I've stated before, I'd be very happy to pay for software that worked much better in Windows (perhaps written in C++, but definitely not Java, Perl or VB), with perhaps less functionality, as long as it was fast, responsive, stable and immediate to use. I tend to use Foobar2000 as my benchmark for this (someone is now going to tell me this is designed in VB!). For me this is much more of a priority than a better remote. I use my Squeezebox much less than I would otherwise because of the frustrating performance of SlimServer on my machines. Sorry to subvert the thread. Simon Turner Barcombe UK _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
