bpa wrote: > The "Play Album" problem is only with Jive UI (e.g. Touch, > Radio,Squeezeplay). It sounds like it's working OK with Material and > you had problems testing from a Radio. > > The plugin was was written Jive UI was new, the idea of a very slow > storage (i.e. mustn't hang LMS waiting), I didn't have experience in the > menu and LMS didn't have the later APi which make it easier to do > dynamic menus (e.g. streaming services) - so it was done in a clunky way > and needs a refresh but its use (i.e. no of downloads) was practically > zero for many years and there were other plugins needed work. > > You may be right about vinyl/CD revival. I also have more experience in > the menu so I'll have a look an see if it can be fixed with limited > effort. > > I had tried various cdda2wav parameters to slow down the execution of CD > reads (e.g. remove overlapped reads) but none made any significant > difference. New drives have big internal buffers and intelligent drive > controllers and so perhaps "tweaks" no longer affect read time. > > The requirement for USB 2.0 may be more important if you want to burn a > CD with the drive at speeds such as 12x, 16x or 24x. USB 1.0 (12Mb/sec) > is more than adequate to read a CD audio stream (1.5Mb/sec) while > buffering the data.
The material interface is more than adequate - easy for my wife to use. It's all looking good! Thanks again for all your help. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ castalla's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15624 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47288 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
