iPhone;538007 Wrote: > If when using Touch in the TinySC self server mode having a 100 song > playlist limit is your only reason for not buying a Touch, it is my > opinion that you should not be allowed to ever buy a Touch. That's just > plain silly for a reason for not buying a Touch. > > First this only applies when using the Touch as a standalone server.
Since I only want to use the Touch as a standalone server, that's like saying "this only applies every time you want to use it." iPhone;538007 Wrote: > Second there is nothing that says you can't save multiple 100 song > playlists and just load a second saved Playlist when the first finishes > (which by the way on average will be 6 hours later!). How many times do > you listen to music for more then 6 hours straight? And how hard would > it be to queue up a second saved playlist when you happen to listen for > more then 6 hours straight? I will tell, not hard just a few touches on > the display. The Current Playlist can never be more than 100 songs, so I'm guessing that if you want to select a folder to play, you'll get the same 100 songs in that folder every time. That's just lame. Also, I would want large m3u playlists, and then just randomize play within a playlist. iPhone;538007 Wrote: > Please remember that TinySC is just that, TINY. There is only so much > memory available on the device. Playlists and their associated baggage > (cover art) take up large amounts of assets ... Again, the Squeezebox Server could have easily minimized resources by handling playlists intelligently. I'm looking at a screenshot now, and a playlist displays only three items for each track: the song title, the band name, and an album cover thumbnail image. In addition, the playlist needs to know the location of each song. With the exception of the cover art thumbnail images, that type of data does NOT use up heavy system resources. As I pointed out above, 1000 songs would take up only 133K. It's almost certainly the cover art thumbnail images that are taking up the heavy system resources. If system resources are that strained, thumbnail images could have been left out of Touch playlists without anyone noticing or caring. WinAmp doesn't display thumbnail images for playlists and nobody ever complains. Neither does RealPlayer. The only music software I'm aware of that displays cover art in playlist mode is iTunes. Even if cover art thumbnail images are to be displayed, the TinySC easily could have cached only nearby cover art in memory. (For example, 10 tracks in each direction plus the 5 tracks currently displayed.) If a user scrolls wildly, then just load images like a web browser does. There would be no delay in scrolling the playlist, just in loading cover art, but users could then have huge playlists. In addition to loading track name, band name, track location, and unnecessary cover art into memory, the TinySC may be loading all track info into memory (i.e. stuff that doesn't get displayed in playlists). If the TinySC is doing that, then it would be a much bigger strain on memory while also being unnecessary. Finally, I ask again, does the iPod have a 100 track (or similar) limitation for its current playlist? It almost certainly is far more resource-constrained than the Squeezebox Touch. If it doesn't have such a limitation, then the "lack of resources" argument is pure bunk. -- hawaiijim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ hawaiijim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37570 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77386 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
