neurophyre;145151 Wrote:
> Funny, I came here to make a post asking if there's any way to improve
> performance on low-end machines. Hitting "play" on a directory with a
> few hundred files in it (say I want to listen to a shuffle of all my
> alternative music, or whatever) is absolutely glacial on my even more
> lowly 600MHz VIA Eden CPU (vaguely comparable to a 350MHz original
> Celeron, or so I've heard). The Squeezebox freezes hard for like 15
> seconds until SlimServer can get itself together to build the playlist
> and start servicing UI requests again.
Building huge playlists like that can certainly be slow. If you want a
shuffle on a big list of music, I'd suggest you look at erlands plugins
here http://erland.homeip.net/download (primarily DynamicPlaylist and
SQLPlaylist), which dynamically generates playlists in blocks of 10
tracks at a time. The performance is far better this way.
Or use the built-in Random Play, which does the same thing.
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