I'm fully behind Jooseppi, as indicated in my post some months ago: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44457
My 3GHz Win2k PC is no slouch, and runs all other applications at the speed I expect. Maybe the comparison with Sooloos (whatever that is) is unfair, but what about my previous comparison with Spider Player, which is free? In Spider, I can open the same 17,000 track (.m3u) playlist that I feed to SqueezeCenter, and ask Spider to shuffle it, and in less than 1 second the list is shuffled and I can start playing immediately. But ask SC to shuffle a new list (of this size) it hasn't previously shuffled, and it takes 1 or 2 MINUTES on my system. There are many other examples of SC's slowness, not least the the 50 minutes it takes to 'scan' my library, a task it shouldn't need to do since I create my own playlists (in a matter of seconds). I agree that the interpreted and web-based nature of SC are probably what kill it, and would like one day to write a 'dedicated' PC application (in C) that does the few things I want, and fast (like Spider Player, with which, incidentally, I have no connection - just a satisfied user). To this end, Mark, can you point me to the protocol for communicating with the players, which you say is open and documented. Daniel -- DanielTheGreat ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DanielTheGreat's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13031 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51305 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
