Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Music & Artist Information Plugin Performance Question
Super! I just gave Django's advice a try and it already made a difference. I will also try the things you described in particular switching to 100x100_o and play with the performance/memory parameter. Thank you very much to both of you for your quick help. Best wishes, Marc. Marc Bartsch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58449 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106508 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Music & Artist Information Plugin Performance Question
From the settings panel of this plugin I can see that performance is a major concern and I am getting varied result myself when browsing artists. Sometimes they come in as quickly as you would hope (and I guess they are retrieved from cache at the time) and sometimes the server would hang at certain artist images and block for roughly 5-10 seconds or sometimes a placeholder image comes through where previously an image was returned. The latter only happens in instances where I am not connected to the internet while browsing, but was connected during scans. As DJanGo pointed out make sure you configure the plugin to download the images and store them locally. I'd even move the image files to a dedicated folder where you can manually replace mis-matches or poor images etc. Is there anything I can do to speed up the artist image retrieval? To Most importantly: use LMS 7.9. Set the Performance/Memory parameter to maximum (if you can afford it) add more context, I am displaying the artist images in my Windows Universal App and currently I am applying the following resizing to those images: http://localhost:9000/imageproxy/mai/artist/4572/image_100x100_f.png. I am showing them in a list view which fetches roughly 20-30 images at a time. Have you tried 100x100_o instead? The problem is most likely that the first time you want an image, the plugin has to get it. If you don't pre-cache them, for every image the plugin has to: - check the music file's folder (and some parent folders, too) for a local image - check a potential local cache for the image - head over to Last.fm to try to find image information for the artist - fetch the artwork (if found) - resize the image - return it to you As Last.fm would often return URLs for rather large PNG files, the download of that file alone can take a few seconds! Now to further speed up your use case you (as a dev) can register your custom image size you want to have pre-cached. See the "artworkspec" CLI command. I asked about 100x100_o, as this would by default be pre-cached for the web UI. If you were using the same, your image cache wouldn't explode, and the scan wouldn't take longer as with the additional size. Ideally, I would like all artist images to be retrieved from online sources only during scans and then stored locally (maybe that is actually already happening) and only retrieved from local storage. If an Yes, that's what should happen if configured correctly. am not using the correct settings. Album images, by the way, come back from the server very quickly. Artist artwork should be pretty much the same if pre-cached. -- Michael ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Music & Artist Information Plugin Performance Question
DJanGo wrote: > Hi, > > why didnt you set "fetch pictures and cache them" when your scanning and > online and unset it when your not scanning anymore? > > Good idea. Will try that. Thank you, Marc. Marc Bartsch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58449 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106508 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Music & Artist Information Plugin Performance Question
Marc Bartsch wrote: > Ideally, I would like all artist images to be retrieved from online > sources only during scans and then stored locally (maybe that is > actually already happening) and only retrieved from local storage. If an > image is not available a placeholder image should be returned. Hi, why didnt you set "fetch pictures and cache them" when your scanning and online and unset it when your not scanning anymore? > If an image is not available a placeholder image should be returned. why? if there is no picture "no" picture should be good enough? Otherwise you end up with a realy big cache folder / db. DJanGo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1516 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106508 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Music & Artist Information Plugin Performance Question
Hi, First of all, I absolutely love the artist images that come through the Music & Artist Information plugin. They add so much more richness to browsing your music and make it such a better experience. >From the settings panel of this plugin I can see that performance is a major concern and I am getting varied result myself when browsing artists. Sometimes they come in as quickly as you would hope (and I guess they are retrieved from cache at the time) and sometimes the server would hang at certain artist images and block for roughly 5-10 seconds or sometimes a placeholder image comes through where previously an image was returned. The latter only happens in instances where I am not connected to the internet while browsing, but was connected during scans. Is there anything I can do to speed up the artist image retrieval? To add more context, I am displaying the artist images in my Windows Universal App and currently I am applying the following resizing to those images: http://localhost:9000/imageproxy/mai/artist/4572/image_100x100_f.png. I am showing them in a list view which fetches roughly 20-30 images at a time. Ideally, I would like all artist images to be retrieved from online sources only during scans and then stored locally (maybe that is actually already happening) and only retrieved from local storage. If an image is not available a placeholder image should be returned. Is this how the plugin already works or is this something that could be added as an option? I played with the settings panel of the plugin, but could not find a setting that would always return all images quickly, but maybe I am not using the correct settings. Album images, by the way, come back from the server very quickly. Any insight into this would be very much appreciated. Maybe it is just a way I need to configure my local LMS. Also, I am using the latest LMS 7.9 and the latest Music & Artist Information plugin. Good work, really! Best wishes, Marc. Marc Bartsch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58449 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106508 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
