Hey, thanks for the detailed comments. Some replies... wiped;365105 Wrote: > > - Trackstat is not existing and it would be awesome to have that > integrated in the app somehow. > As I keep saying more and more often: Patience, young Jedi, patience you must have... > > -- Even tough it takes a number of seconds longer to load i do have ALL > albumarts loaded when scrolling up and down. With the app, i get the > list fast but scrolling down is without artwork until i wait a second > or so, then the visible albums get their artwork and continuing down > the same procedure is repeated etc... >
Now here we have some fundamental points to make: a) I do NOT load all album art into memory and looking at your library, it's probably a good idea, album art eats a lot of memory and even though iPhone has quite a bit of it it's not abundant. iPhone has no virtual memory, so I have to fit everything into REAL memory! That said: iPhone DOES cache the artwork on the disk on the iPhone and immediately reads it upon request, however, reading it while the cell is being processed takes too much time and will kill scrolling. And scrolling itself takes so much CPU time on iPhone, that the processing of the artwork simply waits until all scrolling is done. Have a look at Apple's iTunes remote and you know what I mean. This, btw, means you can speed up the artwork loading by stopping the scrolling. Now what iPeng does is, it caches a number of albums in memory while upon request and I can improve the caching mechanism (e.g. it reads ahead on "Albums" but not on "New Music", but it's quite unlikely that on this device with a large library all artwork will allways be present, remember, you do have direct access to every album through the index. > > This happens no matter how long i stay on the page or have the app > running. > Ofcourse when i have had the list populated once it seems faster the > second time if i don't quit the ap between. > It appears FASTER when it's cached on the device's flash disk, independent of whether you quit the app or not, but until it get's thrown out of the cache (which it will not on New Music), it will be there IMMEDIATELY on the second time you visit it. > > Personally i would prefer having to wait a few seconds to have the page > load but get all artworks in the list populated so i directly can scroll > with everything in place. > OK, but 90% of the other people voted the other way around... Sorry... I even got quite a few requests to do away with artwork completely to speed up things (as an option or so) > > -- I only get max 75 items in teh new music list and cannot scroll > further or change to a second side? > What for? Won't change anything. > > --- Artwork are also smaller in the webinterface so i can see about > twice as many albums on one screen (that is a matter of personal > preference ofcourse) but i would like to be able to have that as a > setting. > Wait a moment... A few lines above you tell me you cannot live with waiting 0.5s until the artwork shows up and now you say it's too big? > > In the app i get: > Brit Hits 2008 (2CD) > Fall out boy > Yep. That's a question of the query. I could get all artists from SC in > a list, but that would slow things down a lot. Will have a details page > on a later release. > Nothing to do with the web interface, that works fundamentally > different in that it generates everything on the server. > > > > > > When you have your page loaded in the webinterface you don't need to > > toggle anything, you select the artwork or the plus sign.. very easy > > and straightforward. I would really like to see something similar. > > Best if possible would be press the artwork - play that album, press > > hold add to playlist. If you still want to have play next perhaps to > > finger press.. :-) > > > > > Sorry, I already find it hard to explain the current scheme, that one > will be pretty much impossible. Also: What do you do for Artists, > Genres and Tracks? > The additional button clutters the screen a lot and will take > valuable space for text... > No, I like the current solution, once you get used to it, it's quite > efficient and there's no way you will have to switch between modes a > lot since it doesn't make sense (you will not clear your playlist > every few seconds, so you either PLAY once and then switch to add or > you are already in ADD mode. Which of the ADD modes you use pretty > much is a thing of personal preference or situation) or did I > overlook something? > > > > > > --Years, i very much miss browsing by year.. > > > > > Patience,... :-) > > > > > > -- Sorting, i miss the sorting option for albums, artist. > > , e.g .Years, Artist, Album or Artist, Year, Album or year, album etc > > > > > Hmm.. Maybe one day, you are the first to ask, actually. Will have to > find a good UI for that. > What is "Album or Artist" and "Album or Year"? > Artist is there (Artists->All Albums) > Years will come (actually I am not sure I will ever do browse by > year, I suspect I will only do "Albums sorted by Year" with a > Year-Index > > > > > > easier to add to playlist > > > > > Sorry, I don't believe that. I understand the other points, but not > that one > > > > > > #Trackstat! > > > > > Patience, young... > > > > > > #Load artwork with pageload, or atleast load them in the background > > without having to scroll to populate > > > > > see discussion above. Will try to improve some logic but I don't see > a full load > > > > > > #Smaller artwork size or as a setting = more albums per page > > > > > hm... need to think about it. Currently it's about 2 votes to 1 > against it since I did refuse some requests to make it even > bigger... > > > > > > #More space for compilation artists when you have the setting to list > > all artist, atleast as much that can fit > > > > > Sorry, that's not a question of space but one of getting and > processing the information > > > > > > #Adding to playlist = Press hold : new playlist = Press : double click > > or two finger press or ... > > > > > NO. Sorry :-) > > > > > > #Browsing by year > > > > > Can you tell me if you really need this or if "Browse Albums Sorted > by Year" with an index for years wouldn't be better. If you need it, > why? > > > > > > #Sorting of albums etc. > > > > > Can you explain those other options besides the one I understand and > that will come? > > > > > > #Caching between sessions, needed to be able to pick up, start app, add > > albums and close.. Now it's sometimes very slow to browse around when > > starting the app, e.g. cannot scroll in a page until after 10-15 > > seconds. the problem is gone after a minute or two > > > > > I DO that. Please make sure > a) you quit iPeng regularly (if it crashes it doesn't save data) > b) your library is quite big. Please make sure it's really finished > loading before quitting, iPeng doesn't cache partial lists (it does > but re-requests them when they are incomplete) > > > > > > Bugs? > > #Only 75 items in new music > > > > > ??? You sure it completed the load? It should read 200! > > > > > > BTW, make sure you get the next update (when approved by Apple), that > > will solve some of your performance issues (the "hanging"). -- pippin --- see iPeng at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55514 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
