jimdibb Wrote: > This part of the problem cannot be a transcoding problem, unless he > means > that while a song is already playing it take 30-40 seconds. If it > takes > that long without music, something else must be wrong. Maybe the HD is > set > to spin-down if the system is idle. > > My laptop server under linux seems to be initially sluggish when I go > to do > the 'first' thing as well. > > On 8/10/06, oriordan <oriordan.2cc4bz1155231001 (AT) no-mx (DOT) > forums.slimdevices.com> > wrote: > > > > > > Here are some numbers I measured last night: > > >From Browse Albums, I push Right Arrow. It takes about 30-40 > seconds > > for the 1st album to display. > > > >
To answer the first point, the 30 - 40 second delay on selecting "Browse Albums" is with nothing happening; no music playing, etc. I assume it's the time it takes to get the entire library loaded. My laptop is configured to not spin down the HD and while I have several windows open (Outlook, IE, Excel, etc.), there aren't any other heavy duty applications actively running at the time. You are right that it's nothing to do with transcoding at this point since nothing is playing. As a side experiment, if I launch Slimserver on my PC, and click on "Browse Albums", it takes about 15 seconds for the library to appear. The second delay (from "play" to music actually starting) may be attributable to transcoding. Since I'm not an expert in this area (can you tell?) can someone suggest how I'd convert an album to a lossless format so I can see if that makes a difference? -- oriordan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ oriordan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26243 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
