Brave souls wanted :)

[Rob H]

I've been doing a bit of work on GAC.lua lately, and before we release it with the next build of NetRemote I was hoping that a couple of brave souls who use Mediabridge extensively might try the latest version. It's been refactored quite a lot and seems to work okay here.

Please make a backup of your existing files so you can easily restore them in case of problems.

Replace the existing files in luascript\startup with the two attached versions and let me know if you have any problems and I'll try to address them as quickly as I can.

[Rob H]

Oh, and by the way, anyone who's using the Flatstyle CCF or a CCF derived from it may want to make one small change to the .lua file.

Find the line

mygacl = GAC:new{var='GACL',includeSubItemCount=1,imageSize='S', fields='Album,Album Artist (auto)',count=20, useGP=1, };

Change the includeSubItemCount=1 to includeSubItemCount=0 and you should see a substantial speed improvement when paging in the covers view.

[DaveS]

Rob, I don't have an additions.lua file in startup

[DaveS]

Using Flatstyle here and yes browsing covers is much quicker

[Rob H]

What build of NR are you using? Additions.lua should have been been included with the last few builds at least. If you're using a recent build then there's a problem with the installer.

[Rob H]

Anyone else tried this yet?

The next build of NetRemote will almost certainly have this code in it, so it would help you as well as us to test this

[jwilson56]

Well I am using build 2.0.8.131 and I do not see those files either.

[Rob H]

You must have GAC.lua though? In luascript\startup, not luascript.

But have you found any problems?

[jwilson56]

Ok... dropped those files into place and changed the LUA file. Personally I think its a bit slow for me. Of coarse I didn't use the Flat file as a base for my browser and you can check back last spring (under the Flat thread post #107) when I posted about how slow the Flat was compared to the to the new-pro_480x640.ccf code and LUA file. So I chose to use that as a base for my browser instead of Flat.

After dropping the files into place and making the change to the LUA file it now takes at lease 4 seconds to display (seems to pause then displays the list) the next 10 albums in the list (830+ CD's). I suppose that is an improvement over the 8 seconds it was taking using the Flat CCF.

My current browser using the code from new-pro_480x640.ccf is less than 1 second. So for me this is not an improvement. I would ask once again for someone to go through and check the new-pro_480x640.ccf and its LUA file to see why there is such a difference. I can't see any functional differences either. It operates the same as far as I can tell and can drill back up for the albums or playlists without losing its place in the list.

I also tried the new files with no changes to my CCF LUA file and it appears to work fine and is about the same speed as with the old files in the startup folder. So if they become part of the NR install it won't effect me from what I can tell. But I have to say I prefer 1 second over 4 seconds every time I hit the button.

[Rob H]

The only difference I can tell between new_pro and FlatStyle is the includeSubItemCount that I mentioned earlier.

Are you saying that the new code in GAC.lua is 4 times slower than the old GAC.lua? Or am I misunderstanding you?