Bugzilla – Bug 14231
Napster bulk metadata fetch is slow
Last modified: 2009-10-09 09:36:36 UTC
Firmware 7671... Listening to the Top 100 most popular tracks, and meta data get's messed up, sometimes is the album title, but mostly the album art doesn't get displayed. Seems to happen most often when you let it play and go to next track. Manually skipping doesn't seem to show as many issues. -Sam
QA has confirmed this
What do you mean by 'messed up'? Is it just delayed appearing?
Created attachment 5907 [details] Photo of Napster Now Playing Screen
Metadata never shows up... Now it shows nothing -Sam
OK, I watched the video. That is just the way it works, the metadata for the tracks in the playlist is fetched in the background and is pretty slow. I will look and see if there is any way to speed it up. Unfortunately, Napster does not have a good API method to get this metadata like Rhapsody does. (Rhapsody works the same way but is much faster.)
Ahh... it must be real slow then. Because often times the song will play all the way through and I will not get any of the metadata.
The larger the playlist, the longer it will take. I will review the code later tonight to see if anything can be done.
== Auto-comment from SVN commit #7418 to the network repo by andy == == https://svn.slimdevices.com/network?view=revision&revision=7418 == Fixed bug 14231, improve Napster metadata fetch through a couple of changes: metadata call is now globally cached so popular tracks will tend to be cached already. Add a timer on metadata fetch so we return after 5 seconds with as much as possible.
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