pippin wrote: > Interesting idea, I might actually consider this for the ickStream > App... > > For iPeng, though, I believe it would make more sense to have this kind > of functionality in a plugin. > The reason is the way plying an album works. When iPeng plays an album, > it doesn't queue up all the tracks but instead just tells the server > "play this album" or "add this album", so it can't filter out any > particular set of tracks. > And changing this behavior and have iPeng queue up all the tracks is not > a good idea. I actually did that in earlier versions of iPeng in certain > cases and the problem is that it can potentially have a severe > performance impact on your server and did so when I used it that way. > Some albums have dozens or even hundreds of tracks (e.g. audiobooks, > collections; my personal maximum is > 1,500 tracks in one "album") and > adding a track to the playlist means the server does a full query for > that track (individually) and then inserts it in the current playlist. > If you've got a slow server and a hundred tracks, expect playback to > stall for many seconds. With bad luck, a user then taps again, just to > start it over again and queue up even more queries making things worse. > > For a plugin this would be easier: it could query the whole album at > once, get the list of track, filter out the ones it doesn't want to play > and then add them to the current playlist all at once. > > So no, this isn't a feature to be implemented in iPeng, it just wouldn't > be a good idea in a Squeezebox system to do it like that, it's what > plugins are for.
Is there not an aditional browse mode for lossles tracks in 7.9 ? Would it be hard to also implement browse for lossy tracks 7.9 ? I imagine a user could set it up by himself in the aditional browse mode plugin ? meaning he would use this extra browse mode provided by 7.9 as an entry piont from ipeng ? -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
