Thread: footify alpha, a Spotify client based on despotify
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Joorin is offline Joorin
2010-06-05 , 23:08
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#101
Originally Posted by florian View Post
the client works a lot smoother now that the playlists are cached. How are they refreshed?
As I wrote above, playlist handling is atomic, as in if you change your playlists in any way, they will all be downloaded again.

For playback: It still takes "ages" (anything between 30 seconds and 5 minutes) to start the first track. Once that one is started, the playing is fast. No long waits between tracks, even when skipping.
I did a field test earlier tonight (trying to outstage a HTC), and with low bitrate and 3G connection, it took some 20 seconds to fill the buffer in despotify and start playing.

This includes getting a reply to the Play command. There is no way to avoid this delay and this is the time it takes from double tapping a song and changing to the Playing view. My gut feeling is that the Spotify people have been changing the server a bit making initial commands a bit slower. When your playlist is "at the front" in the server end, things work with less delays.

Thank you for the feedback. This version was a bit rushed so I'm glad that it works well (apart from load times).