Phil Leigh;524405 Wrote: > Out of curiousity I downloaded the demo version of AlbumPlayer - here > are my initial impressions (which are obviously skewed by the fact I am > not familiar with the software!) > > 1) took 45 minutes+ to scan in my 32k Track database + about 15 more > minutes to finish off gathering the artwork from my cover.jpg files - so > about half the speed of 7.5Embedded on the same machine. CPU was pretty > 50% pegged during this time (single core machine). > > 2) No handling of multi-disc sets > > 3) search/filter function works on songs or artist or album titles - > but not across all 3 at once. However, it does use progresive keystroke > matching (like MusicIP). Partially because of the progressive matching, > the searching is extremely quick - a few milliseconds after your last > keystroke, compared to about a second on SBS > > 4) No integration with MIP that I could yet find (?) > > 5) the browse lists are horrible - well, the lists are OK but the > scrolling gives me a headache as it jerks around - it's hard to explain > in words what it does but I don't like it. > 6) The app has a slightly "Windows Media Player ish" feel to it > 7) the inbuilt tag editing is... dangerous > 8) The artist browse supports "artist artwork", which is nice, although > I don't want to be reminded what a lot of 60's rock bands actually > looked like :-) > > > > All in all, it looks like a nice app if you like the Windows highly > graphical approach. It is quick (but does anyone really need that speed? > - I like to relax when listening to music...) > > Of course,the lack of MIP, multi-room sync, dependency on a Windows PC > etc make it a rather different > sort of application. > > > Just thought I'd offer an alternate view... > Phil
A lot of the settings you described above can be modified in the preferences page. things like album tag editing can be changed so one one can alter them there is a fair bit to it. Its the SB hardware that I would really like as they use great dacs and are know for their high quality sound. I have found something which may be more of what im after but its such a new product that there are no reviews on it yet , the QED u-play. I may risk it and buy the QED or I have also downloaded a trial version of the airfoil software for the airport express which works very well with AP apart from a slight delay in the sound. -- west_sounds ------------------------------------------------------------------------ west_sounds's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36895 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76038 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
