probedb wrote: > It's nice that the SB/LMS system is being kept alive by projects like > piCorePlayer too. I sold my original SB3 and bought a RPi with a > HifiBerry Digi+ board for less money. I see no reason to use a Sonos > player...so expensive in comparison. > > As a programmer the only reason for these limits I can see are hardware > and if the database is indeed kept on each player that's probably why.
Agree it is almost certainly a player memory size limitation - the database is probably held in ram. Plus the use of 16-bit track references. It's instructive to have a feel for how much memory you actually need. I would have thought 100 bytes average for per-track tag information would be plenty of allowance. That is only 6MB for 64K tracks, a pathetically small amount these days. In other words, if the player contained something like a raspberry pi with 512M of memory, it should easily be able to hold all the tag information for a million tracks in a well organised in-memory database. A decent sized artwork cache is another matter though. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ utgg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40900 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103488 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
