Jeff Flowerday;560412 Wrote: > I vote for performance over bling. Art is nice but too much or too > large will have a huge performance penalty.
Really? I don't think they are mutually exclusive, and in those cases where they are, one could toggle back and forth. The big performance hit seems to be server side processing of data about the music (caching; searching; updating) which has little to do with bling, and lots to do with basic functionality. So I guess the option to turn off cover art is useful for people running with a NAS instead of a server. --------------------- Or maybe the "quasi" high end look and feel and functionality market is not what iPeng on the iPad is, in part, going after. Which is fine. It cannot be all things to all users. Seems like there *is* a market for a super slick, very pretty iPad interface for SBS that gives one the experience of a dedicated device (think Sooloos or Sonos) but at a fraction of the cost (think $30 instead of $3000). ----------- Sure, there should be other choices for an interface, or at least a way to toggle features that suck resources (where possible, such as album art if it's a hog; probably cannot turn off search and filter features even though they are a hog!). But here are some ideas selected almost at random. [image: http://www.stereophile.com/images/archivesart/908soo.2.jpg] [image: http://www.senseworks.com/images/MscSvrGui_lrg.jpg] [image: http://www.stereophile.com/images/archivesart/908soo.4.jpg] -- nathan_h ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nathan_h's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22786 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74581 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
