wildgoose;570450 Wrote: > Very interesting. I also noticed it's responding slower than my SBC at > times. > > When I press 'play' in shuffle mode from a folder containing list of CD > folders, it is very fast on my 8 year old P4 system, the song would > start to play with a 1 or 2 second delay. But it is really slow (like > takes a minute) on the NAS. This is annoying but a one time delay and I > can live with that. > > When I press 'repeat', or 'shuffle' when a song is playing, the UI > should immediately reflect the new status, regardless of the actual > server communication state. With SC on the NAS, sometimes it takes what > seems to be like 10 seconds before the UI will update the repeat/shuffle > icon. I feel like this can be improved even with a slow SC.
Have a look at the cpu use while pressing multipple shuffle's shuffle with >200 songs especially at slow machine it will be pegged at 100% for minutes, and the squeezeboxes will even drop the communication with the server, so it's not in shape of doing anything at all. My workaround the playlist issues is to use Erlands dynamic playlist plugin, it can randomize from a playlist so I can load my 1000 song pl with dynamic playlist and choose "random from this playlist" and the plugin esentially loads up 10 songs at the from that playlist. But his plugins are also a bit demanding on the server, but it works much better than shuffle. There is a basic design error somewhere a playlists handling is just a list of files, shuffle that list should just take fractions of second, in most music applikations for desktop PC it would be trivial to load up the whole collection as a playlist and shuffle. -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 and assorted amps SiriuS, Classe' Primare and Dynadio speakers, Contour 4 Contour Center, and Contour 1.3SE for the rear ch. Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Miscellaneous use: Radio (with battery) I use a Controller various ir-remotes and a Eee-PC with squeezeplay to control this ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81089 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
