| Walt Mankowski on 26 Feb 2009 09:14:48 -0800 |
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On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:08:14PM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote: > I actually question the sanity of doing the flac->mp3 processing on > the fly all the time, which entails a non-trivial memory and CPU hit. > It may work okay if there's only one or two readers, but it can't > scale without some fairly clever pre-fetch and (fast) disk caching. > That said, it's perfect for what it's intended to do (but don't > imagine that you could use this to drive, for example, 25 listening > stations in a record store without throwing some beefy hardware at > it). You're also going to take a big hit the first time you try to sync it with a new device, but you'd take that anyway. I'm a little curious how you avoid taking that hit every time you sync -- if it just uses timestamps, that's fine. But if it uses something like an md5 checksum, it's not going to work all that well. Walt Attachment:
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