PasTim wrote: > I agree that delaying startup will probably be unacceptable to many. I > think I can adjust my habits to live with tit rather than hiccups when > playing later in the day. > > Please don't spend time on my menus (unless you have time on your hands, > which I suspect you don't). I have quite a few and they work fine once > run, so I suspect tuning will only make a marginal improvement in > comparison with priming the cache. For various reasons I decided to stop using the Vortexbox software and go my own way using xubuntu, mostly headless sitting at the command line login prompt, on the same Vortexbox appliance hardware.
To cut a few days work short, I now have a system that is much quicker all round, including menus which even on first use only take a couple of seconds, and custom scan time is roughly halved. I don't know what it was about the old linux setup that was making things slow, whether it was fedora 16, or an accumulation of rubbish, or having to reload all my flacs (hopefully for the last time now they are on a separate mount point), but it always was rather slow. Anyhow, I no longer need to delete and recreate an index at startup to speed up my custom browse menus. LMS 7.8 on VortexBox Midi, FLACs 16->24 bit, 44.1->192kbps. Touch with EDO on Ethernet, coax out to a Musical Fidelity M1 CLiC. Wireless Xubuntu laptop controls server using Chromium. Meridian Explorer USB DAC to listen to LMS via Squeezelite on Vortexbox & other PCs as required. Spare Touch in loft! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49483 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
