Really? The changes I made in 1.10 were designed to make it perform better. Basically, the lyrics are read in a background thread instead of the main loop (including the button input) having to wait. That's where you'd see things getting really unresponsive in 1.01.

Without ReserveCache, even 1.01 slowed down on me. You should at least have 16 cache blocks reserved, that's hardly stealing any from the player.

Though there are two variables here, one is the new thread, the other is the change in the id3 library. I wonder if I should release a version of 1.10 with id3lib instead of libid3tag. Maybe the extra 2MB in executable bloat is worth it if id3lib is overall faster.

I'll do some more experiments on my own player and report the results... I'm running on a Mk2a with the extra 4mb of RAM though...