On Tue, 27 May 2008 23:01:58 CDT, stuart wrote: > > I am running 6.5.1 under FreeNAS. What is the motivation to upgrade? > > > > Jon > > Hi Jon... > > Ehr, are you running on some light weight embedded processor device like > a slug? What is FeeNAS usually run on?
I'm running FreeNAS on an old PC, doing software RAID across a couple hard drives. It works quite well, and I keep meaning to add more storage to it. > If that's the case, and you are happy with 6.5.1, perhaps it would be > easier to work on making mclient more universal then it would be to > upgrade you to 7.0.x. > > Isn't 6.5.4 the latest slimserver version? > > ----- > Anyways, Motivation: > > It appears the image manipulation is much improved - probably because of > the new squeezebox duet from logitech. Regardless, asking for images of > a particular size, for instance, is as easy as making up a URL with > dimensions as part of the file name. Now the album cover browser > performs at a much quicker pace loading images of only 100 by 100 pixels > regardless of the original image size. Add to that, I'm now caching the > images to a depth of 100 covers locally. > > Also, there is better support for using images of different formats. > The meta data supplied by SqueezeCenter is correct for different formats > such an PNG, JPEG and GIF. Locally, I have changed to code which handles > all three. > > This arrangement, however, handles the default "no album cover" image. > This may not seam to be a problem, but the image covers up screen space > used for the title of albums that have no image. SqueezeCenter 7.0.x > provides a solution by allowing us to indirectly find albums w/no > covers. Now we can skip pulling the album covers for such albums. (It > was serendipities this was not a problem before - since this default > image was a PNG and we couldn't handle PNGs we didn't display it.) > > ----- > Other fixes... > > It appears (more evident in 7.0.x) that the tag fields in CLI responses > can come and go depending on the situation and are not necessarily in a > fixed order. So the album and title CLI queries have been re-written to > handle these situations. The fall out is that mclient can handle the > "scanning" tag field which pops up during the rescanning of your album > collection. Up till now, I believe mclient would reset if used during a > rescanning session. I should upgrade FreeNAS anyway, so when I get around to it, I'll look into upgrading slimserver as well. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
