[SOLVED] Large library - performance (5.3 VS 4.4)

[Tim Curtis]

@TookaFace, @Tim Curtis

I don't think this is a large library issue per se.

I just updated three moOde players from r5.2 to r5.3. One is running on an RPi2B (Ethernet) one on an RP3B+ and the third on an RPi3A+. The latter two are both connected wirelessly.

I have a modest 5000 track (500+ albums) library on a NAS accessed via SMB.

I've had only a few minutes to play with r5.3 so far, but using Chrome on my Nexus 6P Android phone has been excruciating because of laggy UX responsiveness when switching between Radio, Directory, Genre/Artist/Album, and Album-by-artist views, but especially switching back and forth between Radio and Album-by-artist. I'm seeing long delays before the switch occurs and even the little microphone/grid icons in the top-center widget are slow to catch up with the selected state.

The situation seems much better with Chrome and Safari on my iPad and better yet with Chrome on my Linux Mint laptop. Even with these, I can detect minor delays. For example, if I switch from Album-by-artist to Radio view, the Radio icons show up very fast but there's a delay of up to a second or so before I can scroll through them.

Like I said, I've only just upgraded and I haven't had time to characterize this well. For example, I haven't had time to work out how long it takes the radio/album icons to fill on first use. As well, I should probably pull out a old Nexus 9 Android tablet to compare with the iPad I use now.

Regards,
Kent

PS - another puzzler. With Chrome or Safari on my iPad in portrait mode, it seems sometimes impossible to hit the microphone icon to switch from Albums view to Radio view, although it's always possible to switch from to, say, Directory view and then from Directory view to Radio view. No problem going from Radio to another view.

Is this only 5.3 or is it same on 5.2?

Try this change:

Code:

sudo nano /var/www/js/jquery.lazyload.js

Change threshold from 200 to 0

Refresh browser (multiple times) to ensure the updated JS is loaded

Also on your Desktop or iPad open Chromes javascript console and see if there are any errors.

My iPad mini is no showing the "puzzler" that you mentioned.