I know, I have been working on this a bit after the first release although at least on the Air it should become smooth as soon as the artwork is fully cached.
There are several aspects at play here: 1. Scheduling is worse under iOS 7 than under iOS 6. The same code just compiled under iOS 7 performs much worse, especially whenever disc write operations are involved, even if they happen in the background. I was able to mitigate this by running more of the artwork handling in the background but I wasn't able to get this stable and I suspect some of the performance gain comes from losing some artwork. 2. I iOS 7 loses a lot of performance through the live blur effects, in this case for the navigation bar (header). This doesn't apply to the mini (where I believe it's always turned off) but it helps to turn this off: Settings->General->Accessibility->Increase contrast. It will not affect iPeng's own effects on the NowPlaying screen. 3. I do now support track artwork for the current playlist. Unfortunately this makes the artwork handling a bit more complex since another lookup step is involved. If a lot of artwork is being loaded, a lot of performance is lost. But all of that said: I did find a few optimization a that will make the next update perform better plus you'll notice a significant speed up once the artwork is cached. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and *New: Logitech UE Smart Radio* as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100478 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
