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I absolutely love the speed boost that this gives my player!
Sounds great! Any comparison data?


Nothing measured -- and not likely to be for a while, as I'm in the classroom for much of this week, using this exact unit as a demo/illustration of an early embedded Linux system.

But one very obvious one: I have an "All" playlist, which selects all artists. Clicking on this in the web interface, to bring up the list of artists, used to take about 15-20 seconds (seeking around to read a bunch of tag files) while the player was playing an mp3. It now takes about 3 seconds.

I expect database rebuilds to be equally improved(!), but haven't actually rebuilt a database yet, since I just copied everything over as-was from the single 30GB hard drive.

EDIT: and startup is noticeably faster too. The waving Tux animation gets preempted by the player startup now, and music is coming out before the static logo is done.

Cheers


Edited by mlord (17/07/2007 09:40)