pippin;629611 Wrote: > Well, right now only the main lists are being cached. And they are being > kept. > > No. Be assured, most users will NOT know it better, especially on all > the server versions with autorescan. > Also, most users don't want to be bothered with it. They don't want to > eventually find out that they now can't play something they have found > but have to restart browsing because they forgot to clear the cache, > this would be a usability horror. > > I understand that it's interesting to browse the library when offline > but it's clearly a secondary use case over browsing stuff while online > and must not get in the way of the latter. > As I said: some of this _might_ work in one of the next releases but > I'm not yet sure, I have to see how I create a usage model about the > extended cache and what I plan to do with it. > > > This has absolutely nothing to do with the background refresh but only > with the time it takes the iThingy to connect to the network, which is > usually a function of the router you use. > > As soon as a network connection is establish, commands like pause work, > they don't even require the server connection to be up although that > latter one usually only takes a few ms. > > The NowPlaying screen has increasing timeouts for retrying the update > if there is no connection to the server so if it initially took very > long to re-connect to the WiFi it may take a while until the update > finally comes in. It will eventually update. I cant hammer the device > with requests permanently or it will > > dramatically drain your battery once your network is off. > > It does that. This is completely independent. It can't send anything if > the network isn't up, though.
OK then it something else entirerly SqueezePad gets ready to press pause ( after being in the background) in 2 seconds iPeng 10 to 20 seconds ? -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
