erland;549597 Wrote: > I'm not sure if it makes you any happier but I feel that the performance > problems needs to be solved, it's just a matter of how, as I look at > there are currently the following options: Any improvement makes me happier ;)
erland;549597 Wrote: > 1. > Logitech decides to implement flexible browsing and we don't need > Custom Browse anymore (this will obviously not happen before July) I agree that this would be the best but probably last available option. erland;549597 Wrote: > 2. > I find some easy way to optimize Custom Browse to get decent > performanceThis would be at least a first step erland;549597 Wrote: > 3. > Make it possible to configure Custom Browse to just show basic > information and instead get better performance. I suspect this means > that we for example need to skip album art. The issue currently is that > to be able to display album art Custom Browse runs a separate query for > each entry in the menu, the result if there are many items in the menu > is poor performance. I think it might be pretty easy to add a > configuration option to make it possible to configure it to not run > these extra queries.I am quite sure that skipping album art is not a good > idea. If you have a Touch then (I guess) you want to see album art. Further, I am not sure if album art is really the problem. For example, in the CustomBrowse menu "Browse title by A-Z" there is no album art shown, but the performance is bad. So how can album art be the reason for the bad performance if there is no album art shown at all? erland;549597 Wrote: > 4. > Create a new plugin which offers a bit less flexibility with the > advantage of improved performance. If I select this route it might even > result in making a special version of SBS which have the necessary > plugin API changes to integrate it better with the core code. It would > probably mean that only Linux and OSX would be supported, so I would > prefer to find a different solution since many people still uses > Microsoft's crap. I also guess that this may take some time. erland;549597 Wrote: > The limited flexibility in option 4 would probably still satisfy 95% of > the users since I suspect most users use about 5% of the potential of > Custom Browse. The problem is just to get to know which 5% of the > functionality this is so it can be included in the limited version. > However, I really don't want to select option 4 if it means making a > special version of SBS, it's only a way out if there isn't any other > good options. Option 1 would be my preferred solution but I'm not yet > convinced Logitech will prioritize this.In my special case it would be > sufficient to be able to define different libraries depending on the Genre (I use multiple Genres and set Genre to the names of my children to define what should be in their libraries) and create regular Artist and Album browse menus which are in each case limited to the respective library. I could imagine that this is a feature which would use many people. I personally have additionally defined special browse menus for browsing classical music but this is more complicated. And as long as I use my old classic Squezeeboxes everything is fine. -- dip ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dip's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=902 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49483 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
