Mnyb;544802 Wrote: > SqueezePlay has bigger problems than a rigid UI . > > It may sound contra intuitive, but this "fat" players are slowing the > whole system down for various reason , mainly that the players do to > much "thinking" by them-self and the server sits there waiting. > > And the use of a scripting language on a memory and cpu starved > platform ? > Should it not at least be some kind of assembler code or compiled code > ? > > The slim devices has an edge when driven by a local server they are > much more efficient. > > Hopefully the customize squeezeplay UI bug is kept alive, there are > some good ideas there. > > I would like to turn of images for the playlist's on SqueePlay the NP > screen can show it and album and artist views, but having to sit and > wait for a controller to cache hundreds of tiny images for a playlist > ? > it's enough with one on the NP screen. > > So a wish for a more efficient and customizable squeeplay in the > future. > It can be improved/changed, there is wast differences between SP as > seen on the first controllers and what we have now regardless of which > version you prefer it can be changed.
While I agree with some of your complaints, the use of a LUA in SqueezePlay is only as a "glue". 99% of the time a Radio/Touch whatever will be running compiled code - it will be playing music files, or it will be decoding jpgs, or it will be scaling them for display, or it will be displaying text. Unless I'm very much mistaken, these functions are all done in compiled C/C++. LUA is just a handy way of rapidly (from a dev point of view) linking all these low level parts to get it to do something useful. IMO this is is a sound method for bringing the product together. My biggest complaint with SqueezePlay is the lack of customisation, and the fact that you can't configure as many things from SBS. At least on the Radio you can't change the size of the text, and this in particular is shameful.* But none of this, IMO, relates to the implementation. More likely, it's because Logitech don't think filling these holes will make them sell another unit. * http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15728 -- Aslak3 (SB 2, SB Boom, SB Radio) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Aslak3's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31977 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78465 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
