Jooseppi;331176 Wrote:
> 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.
The hardware interface with the remote is very fast for me.
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