Malor wrote: > Ah yes, the lovely open source ethos: "Blame the User". You'll see > this all the time. User describes what he or she wants something to > do. If that something is difficult with current open source offerings, > then the user is told he or she is stupid for wanting it.
No, you are being argumentative. The OP claimed that scanning was "too slow" on very slow hardware. The problem has nothing to do with open source or not. It has to do with unreasonable expectations. > The idea of requiring a multi-Ghz machine to -serve music- is pretty > startling, IMO. There is no claim to such a thing. The claim is that since one gigahertz CPUs are obsolete, there is no reason to run a slow computer and then complain that it is slow. > Yet, for some > reason, this software requires multi-ghz to do a good job of handling > ONE AUDIO STREAM. There is no truth to this claim. I ran for years on a 500 mHz p3. The only reason I changed was that the fan got filled with rabbit fur, and I had a newer machine sitting idle. > Yes, I understand why that is; it's in Perl and runs on Mysql and can > run a bunch of clients at once. No, it is not because it is Perl or MySql. The claim is that scanning is too slow, and the reason that is slow is because it has to read much of, if not all of, the data in the files. On a slow computer or with slow disks or with limited memory, that will take a long time. I have no idea what your problem with the developers was, they have always welcomed whatever I have offered. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
