Hello everyone,
And first of all thank you for the many replies and understanding
attitude. Many times if you post something with a negative undertone
("I'm not satisfied") to a dedicated forum, you most often end up with
emotional defensive attacks from them so called fanboys.
Anyway. What I've gathered so far, the lack of that last bit of
snappiness and lightning fast speed is a result of several factors.
Maybe these are some of them?
- Software side is an open system that has to work in conjunction with
who knows how many applications (AV, FW and so forth) and who knows how
badly maintained OS's
- SC software may not be finetuned enough. Some reference to this might
be in the way SC uses memory, which is a lot IMHO. I wouldnt mind the
memory hogging if it resulted in super snappy operation. I can
understand that money dominates business and that modern cheap ram is a
far more economical solution than hiring developers. But isnt there a
line to be drawn somewhere? To be honest, SC is only a simplified
server and an audio streamer. Following this cheap ram stick ideology,
the developers have only some responsibility over software, the rest is
laid upon users.
- The software is web browser based. Why was that decision taken in the
past? I can see it is a globally compatible solution and it helps with
networking but is browser-based really the best way to do it?
Please bare in mind that I do not have deep knowledge over SC or
coding. I may well have wrong ideas on some matters.
What I'm still trying to comprehend is how it can take so long (some
seconds is too much) to display a pre-indexed list of a given number of
albums? Let's say I have 1000 albums. All the crucial metadata has been
indexed during the music library scanning process, right? So now, as I
select to display for example all rock albums, which there are 100 for
example, how can it take some seconds for them to appear on the
display? It would be understandable if the information was gathered
from the actual library directories but no, all the library metadata is
indexed (right?).
pimd's example of a 300-song album is great. Half a minute to display
300 songs! I think that is much too much.
Nonreality, you said "This is on the web interface. The SB3 interface
is very fast". With the latter, are you referring to softsqueeze
interface or hardware interface à la remote control?
Did any of you watch the youtube clip of Sooloos? Isn't that UI just
mind blowing? Aesthetic, ultra snappy, intuitive.. truly a Human
Interface Device.
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