I've been a squeezebox owner for over 3 years, and have become increasingly frustrated with the software. The "squeezecenter" software is just embarrassingly slow, especially compared to the old slimserver software. I'm looking for suggestions (settings, plugins, anything?) that might improve my experience!
I have over 500 CDs in my collection (all ripped to flac) and almost 10,000 songs. When I'm in the mood to listen to some tunes, here's what I do: open squeezecenter and browse by artist, drilling down sometimes by album and sometimes by track to build a playlist (by clicking on the 'add to playlist' button for an artist, an album, or a track) for shuffle play. I usually build a list of several hundred to 1000 songs that fit my mood. Problem is, the interface is so slow that once I have a decent number (100+)of songs in the playlist, and I add something else to the playlist, the whole interface freezes up for 10+ seconds to add the songs to the playlist before I can resume browsing my collection. It's pure frustration; it can take me 20+ minutes to build a decent playlist, the vast majority of time just waiting for the damn web interface to respond. In fact, just moving the cursor from entry to entry in the browse window of the interface, it takes more than 1 second for the entry to be highlighted with the '+' (add to playlist) button. This interface is an embarrassment, and the programmers should be fired. I cannot understand how anything can be this painfully slow running on multi-GHz modern CPU. What alternatives do I have to browse my collection, build a playlist, and control my squeezebox all in one interface? Has anyone built a 3rd-party interface with improved performance? Thanks! -Steve -- sfgorman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sfgorman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11592 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52592 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
