Terrible performance and timouts with just 20-track folders

[GJ51]

First figure out if your problem is the phone or the server. Test your phone on one of my servers listed below and let me know if there is a difference.

[allroy1975]

First figure out if your problem is the phone or the server. Test your phone on one of my servers listed below and let me know if there is a difference.

all 4 of your playlists load up quick on my phone. however none of them are even close to the size of mine.

if you wanna see what I'm talking about you can check out my subsonic @
detroitsucks.subsonic.org
withe the same user and password as your guest accnt.

like I said, it's only when dealing with these huge playlists that I have issues. browsing to an album or song is always quick.

[GJ51]

My EVO's stock with whatever the latest update is and I just loaded the site and shuffled playlist. Although the playlist is still loading, the first track began playing immeadiately and the que of tracks shows in the player screen. Complete list loaded in about a minuite. I'd say it works fine on my EVO and wouldn't have any complaints on this end.

I also logged on in my desktop browser and noted that the list takes a while to load in the browser, but all in all it seems not to be too unreasonable depending on what your hardware base is.

Just tested over 3g and the playlist loaded in about 30 sec.

EDIT: Second test took about a min. to load over 3g. I'll let it play a while to see if it has any issues.

[allroy1975]

thanks for testing.

this is pretty disappointing. everything is SOOOO close to being perfect...but so far away.

do you listen to anything through your EVO on Bluetooth? if so....I would assume you've noticed that high notes or sounds (like cymbols and stuff) sound HORRIBLE. it sounds like the volume is up too high and things just get distorted. It's that way as the result of a low bitpool setting in the A2DP Bluetooth driver:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9888

The solution is pretty much "use a cyanogen rom". Google doesn't seem to take things like this too seriously. To be honest, I'm not sure if it's a Google thing or an HTC thing, but since it's spread pretty widely in the Android world...I'd guess Google.

So....when Subsonic works it works great.
Come to think of it....I'd say on the days it works it works great, then towards the end of the day (if I've been listening for a couple hours) by the time I leave work and I disable wifi and enable Bluetooth, the whole thing kinda goes to crap.

I guess I need to do more testing on my end. and maybe check again with the other Cyanogen users and see if there's anyone using subsonic the way I do. I think that's one of my biggest problems. I would guess that most people don't do what i'm doing.

[GJ51]

I do use bluetooth to connect the phone to play on my Bose Wave Radio with Soundlink. Everything sounds fine on that setup. I recently tested it playing back some 1500kbps flac rips that sounded great.

I've followed XDA EVO forums since I bought the phone the first day it came out, but I never bothered to root it. I'm sure there are benefits but I've been so pleased with the functionality of the stock phone I just never got to the point where I thought the risk outweighed the rewards. Hope you find a rom that straightens this out for you. I'm addicted to having my phone linked to my car stereo whenever I hit the road, couldn't think of doing it any other way now. Let me know if you think of anything else I can do to help.

[3R3]

concerning the original problem, have you tried putting one cover/artwork file per folder and deleting embedded artwork from the files? No use in maintaining a copy in ever file. (slow) embedded service will then have nothing to do and folder should display much quicker. Your NAS will surely get 100mb/s on buffered read/writes with large files but in this scenario it might bog down due to the sheer amount of requests that aree not necessarily sequential and surely not buffered or even possible to do so.

Like another poster said, splicing the files into one big file will also help much. On my local disk, loading folders with like 50 files takes 10 secs. And since its an audiobook I dont need 50 files. 5 would be enough to skip to where I left and still not needing to buffer the whole folder in the player first, maybe you could consider this.