Let me start by saying that what you are experiencing isn't at all normal. My album art loads up in less than a second. However, people will need a bit more info from you to work out what the problem might be.
First, what OS are you running (XP, Mac, flavour of Linux)? How much RAM and memory does the box have - is Squeezecenter using a lot of resources? Is your music stored on an external networked drive? Do you use Itunes or MusicIP integration? The most interesting question for me is when you say "Where/how is the art cached stored and accessed?" - that will depend on how you've downloaded and stored the album art in the first place. There are a couple of ways to achieve this - either putting an .jpg or similar in each album folder, or embedding the album art into the files, or having a central repository of album art. Either way the files should be in the same directory as your music. Two more thoughts - how big are these album art files when you click into them? Anything more than 500x500 is unncessary (lost of people use 300x300) and this may be slowing the album art down a lot. Finally, do you have a virus/security program on your box that does "on-access" scanning (everytime you access a file it checks it for suspicious activity)? This could be slowing the process down a lot too. -- Siduhe ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46708 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
