NFLnut wrote: > Honestly, and I know that I'm risking getting flamed BIG time on this > board, but if Logitech is going to pull the plug, I think it's time to > abandon or phase out LMS in any "home built" effort! I still think the > Squeezebox is THE best music player on the market. It's truly a shame > that Logitech IS pulling the plug, but obviously their numbers probably > dictate phasing out the hardware. I don't think ANY of us were under the > illusion that the SB was setting the world on fire with sales. It was > always a niche product. And that all being said .. LMS has just gotten > to where it is just WAY TOO SLOW. I run LMS on a quad core i7. And at > times, it just crawls .. even hangs for up to a minute or two when I am > accessing a large folder. I have actually been looking for an > alternative .. but none better yet exists. > > Squeezeboxen .. awesome hardware. But the LMS is just getting almost > unusable. For me, anyway. If the Sonos had a visual display a la the > Squeezebox Classic (which I have), or the Touch (which I was scanning > eBay etc for, but guess at these prices I will instead just spend money > on a product which has NOT been ruled obsolete). I truly feel "dirty" > contemplating Sonos, but they are still actively selling their product. > They will have to be in my short-list of future music players. I just > found out about Logitech pulling the plug two days ago, thus I missed > out on getting an in-stock Touch in September/October when the prices > were still reasonable.
interesting about the slowness of LMS. Not at all trying to flame you, but as an additional data point, I can say that I use LMS 7.7.2 on a win7 quad core i7 machine (as well as my slower Vortexbox machines). I don't notice any slowness at all. Browsing my library is very snappy and certainly no hanging or crawling. And I have a library of mostly FLACs a bit over 70,000 files. Most with artwork. I do note that you mention "accessing a large folder". I use almost entirely browsing by Artist, Album, or Genre. My files all have good tags. I rarely use "browse music folder". LMS is not really designed to use Browse Music Folder as a way of accessing music. Its internal database is based on tags, etc. So using BMF could be the cause of the hanging you see. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97721 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
