I've been streaming my music over the internet for a while, but due to some annoying people using MY internet
I've been getting dropouts on my music. Since Library Server can do transcoding to a lower bitrate, I thought I'd try that.
So far it's working, but I've found a few issues:
1. For some reason when playing via Library Server I stopped getting dropouts. Note that this is WITHOUT doing transcoding. Is there more buffering involved when using Library Server than when accessing directly over a network share?
2. When playing without transcoding none of my coverart is shown. The server log says things like:
06/08/09 13:28:44 - Unable to serve cover art, file not found
That is for every track, consistently. Interestingly, if I enable transcoding (MP3) then the cover art is fine.
3. The server log says that the cover art is requested 3 times for each track. This happens both when it succeeds or fails. This seems silly.
4. When playing via Library Server MC doesn't seem to prevent the screen saver from starting. It did prevent this when playing via a normal library.
5. When playing via Library Server there's some problems rendering Track View Noire visualization. Many of my cover art images are quite big (around 1000 X 1000 pixels). Normally the Noire track view scales these to fit the screen (I'm playing on a small device with only 600 vertical resolution). When playing via Library Server this scaling often doesn't happen. If I double-click the visualization to return to normal view, and then double-click again to return to the visualization then it is fine.