Artwork and performance is hard. There are some common recommendations on how you can really improve artwork access speed on iOS but they are not really applicable here because iPeng is handling waaay to much artwork. I figured doing memory mapped disc caching (the most performant recommendation) would block some 1GB of flash for an average library with 3,000 albums. Go figure what that means for a 10,000 album library. Right: it won't work at all, at least on a 32 bit device... So this doesn't work.
Newer iPads can easily hold a few hundred albums in memory (the typical size of in-memory cache use I'm seeing on my new iPad mini is around 300MB; the cache size is managed by the OS) but that's only true if no other Apps consume a lot of memory in the background and even these can get purged quickly if you scroll a lot. And loading even an artwork that is cached on the device is something that can be too slow to fill a screenful of images (16-40) in time for fast scrolling so any optimization available is desperately needed. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 7, the Universal App for iOS 7* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100515 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
