tipsen;531403 Wrote: > Finally stumbled over a cheap iPod Touch and my first purchase from the > AppStore was of course iPeng :-) > > All in all I'm quite satisfied - it's a nice little remote gadget for > parties - everybody want's to try it out, navigating the music and > making their own playlists - great :-) > > I'm running my Squeezebox Server from a Synology NAS with limited > memory and cpu specifications - but has tweaked the Squeezebox Server > settings to get better performance. > > Still I think iPeng is a bit too slow on the iPod Touch and I would > like to know which data is cached on the iPod? I have a music library > with about 25.000 tracks/1500 albums and coverart is native 400x400px. > Using the iPod as a remote for my Squeezeboxes is the primary purpose > and hense I wouldn't mind if iPeng used 1-2 Gb of memory for caching > metadata and coverart - is it possible to force iPeng to cache more > data instead of waiting for "Loading" all the time?
Currently not. Planned for a later release but will have to see what can be done. SBS is not particularly caching-friendly. Although... How long have you used iPeng now? If not a lot, I would bet that _right now_ the caching may be the cause for the delays you are seeing. iPeng caches Albums, Artists, Genres and all Cover Art. Cover art is _also_ being cached by the server after it's scaled the first time and kept until you do a "clear and rescan". Yet creating those scaled thumbnails can require quite a while on a slower system so what you might be seeing right now is added load because your server is creating artwork for the artwork cache... The problem with caching more is not so much memory but detecting when the cache has expired and reloading the data from the server then. I plan to cache all static data in a later release but that will require a re-work of the caching in iPeng since the current mechanism is at the brink of what iPhone can store fast enough. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76964 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
