On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 3:53 AM, Yelve Yakut <ye...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Hi > > I hope this mailing list is the proper way of requesting a feature. > > A few months ago I got myself a netbook and I love it! > My media is on an external HDD because it wouldn't fit on my internal drive. > Unfortunately some problems arise from that HDD: > * notable increase in energy consumption > * netbook concept of having a small and portable device is gone with > that thing dangling from my pc while I try to move from one place to > the other or cook while surfing and reading and listening to music at > the same time > > So if it would be possible for Rhythmbox to load all the media from a > selected playlist into memory, I could unplug my drive and still be > able to listen to music.
That's an interesting idea. When you say "memory", do you mean RAM or the netbook's permement storage (i.e. hard drive, memory stick, compact flash, SSD, or whatever)? If you mean RAM, then you won't be able to cache that much data (as a guess, maybe 10 songs?) but that might be enough to allow the external HDD to go into power saving mode. Perhaps even caching one or two songs would help - I wonder if gstreamer (the library RB uses internally) can do this? Caching tracks when playing music from a remote network drive would be a similar issue - although there the aim would be to avoid stuttering due to network latency. Alternatively, if you mean load selected media onto the netbook's own hard drive (or equivalent), then it seems very similar to how you would sync to a iPod or other music player. [I am not an RB developer, just a user with some technical knowledge.] Peter _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
