I've been using the "Touch-Screen" interface to control Slimserver via a tablet PC for a few days now and I gotta say anyone who is complaining about the browser interface is just nutz. It works very well. Browsing by cover art is such a nice way to select music, and if you don't use gigantic .jpg files for the art work it is very fast.
Maybe the people complaining about the web interface speed are running on old, slow PCs (though my tablet is only a 500 MHz celeron with 128 MB of ram), or running very slow network cards (I am using a g card), or maybe they have a lot of network traffic going on while they are trying to control slimserver (running bittorrent for example). I have found a couple small bugs and annoyances. The biggest problem is that the cover art pages are broken up alphabetically into groups of letters. For example, if I want to go to disc titles that start with the letter L, the discs that start with J,K,L, and M are all displayed on one page so I have to scroll through the page to get to the L discs. I understand that you wouldn't want to have a single page for all the artwork because it would be slow to load on a system with a big library, but why not just do a separate page for each letter? That way when you hit L it will go right to L. Scrolling on my touchscreen is a bit of a pain. I found a bug that affects the playlist display. When I first go to the playlist page, it shows the songs in the list along with all the artists, but for some reason, after several seconds, the artists all change to read the same 4 digit year number, as if something in the server is grabbing the year tag from one of the songs and substituting it for the artist field in all the songs in the playlist. I haven't figured the exact conditions that cause it but when I do I'll check bugzilla and submit a report if it isn't already there. Another bug is that when browsing by cover art with the discs sorted by artist, the letters to select the search near the top of the page don't agree with the actual pages that come up. For example, the page that is supposed to display R, S, T actually displays everything from R - Z. Selecting the U, V, W, X, Y, or Z brings up an empty page. TD -- tyler_durden ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tyler_durden's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32104 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
