My SqueezeBox is replacing a network-based music system of my own design. Until the SqueezeBox, I was listening to CDs playing from two Sony Jukeboxes controlled by a Slink-e, a serial device from a now-defunct company called Nirvis.
The software that controls the Slink-e consisted of a proxy server, an ActiveX component and a VB6 ActiveX.exe that I wrote to wrap the OCX's properties and methods. The ActiveX.exe runs in IIS, and is controlled from a series of classic ASP pages that I also wrote. An Access database contains all of my album and track data. My observations comparing SlimServer to my own system First, I do not consider myself a world-class programmer. I know what Im doing, but there are much more talented folks out there than myself. Second, classic ASP and Access are regularly ridiculed for their speed of execution and scalability. Is spite of these facts, the speed and usability of the web interface of my own system is substantially superior to SlimServer at performing similar tasks (listing, sorting, etc.). My system's screen redraws are almost instantaneous. SlimServer's are a bit ponderous. Why is this? There is definitely something fundamentally slow either with Perl or the underpinnings of SlimServer. If you want to compare them yourself, e-mail me and Ill give you access to my intranet. jon[at]theheals[dot]org -- jonheal ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18991 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
