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Asriana
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Wed Jun 21, 2006 9:46 am Post subject: Timer in Now Playing Box |
 
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I'm sure you guys are aware of it, but the timer in the now playing box, no longer counts down until the end of the track playing. It seems to be stuck.
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 stefan_nl
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Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:06 am Post subject: |
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It seems that the countdowntimer has been completely removed.
I'm (also) curious why this has been done.
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Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:30 am Post subject: |
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It was using too many resources which caused the stream to buffer when 200+ people refresh at the same time. My hope is that this is temporary until we can make our database more efficient.
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Asriana
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Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:48 am Post subject: |
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No problem JERIC! Thank you for the quick response! You guys are great! 
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Ruka
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I was wondering what was up with that. Thanks for the response.  |
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 Albi
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Fri Jun 23, 2006 4:32 am Post subject: |
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@Jeric:
Would it save resources if you would show the (server)time at which the current song started playing or will stop playing (in combination with the track length of course)? This can be displayed statically since it only changes for each song (which requires some server processing anyway) and it's a simple variable to keep track off. People still would have an idea how much time is left in the current song, which is what the timer is all about, but you would do away with the syncing |
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Morpheus
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Fri Jun 23, 2006 4:36 am Post subject: |
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I reckon that's a great idea from Albi! The timer was always off sync anyway, so I would never ACTUALLY know when the end of the song actually was. Just a time (according to the clock in the chat window) of when the song started would be great... and we are already given the length of the song!
Just a little maths would give you the end time..... (unless we wanna be lazy and you could put the end time in too)
Keep up the great work JERIC
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Grenadier
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Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:20 am Post subject: |
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Can't this kind of timer be done via client-side scripts, thus keeping the load off the server? Or am I misunderstanding what's causing the load? |
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JERIC
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Wed Jun 28, 2006 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Grenadier wrote: |
| Can't this kind of timer be done via client-side scripts, thus keeping the load off the server? Or am I misunderstanding what's causing the load? |
The load is from everyone's Now Playing page refreshing simulatenously while creating a huge MySQL load on the SAM server (not the WEB server).
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JERIC
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Wed Jun 28, 2006 2:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Albi wrote: |
@Jeric:
Would it save resources if you would show the (server)time at which the current song started playing or will stop playing (in combination with the track length of course)? This can be displayed statically since it only changes for each song (which requires some server processing anyway) and it's a simple variable to keep track off. People still would have an idea how much time is left in the current song, which is what the timer is all about, but you would do away with the syncing |
That is a good idea but I prefer to get the timer back instead, but this time working more effeciently so it won't loadspike out the SAM server (Dual)CPU.
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 phireangel
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Thu Jun 29, 2006 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for taking my "clock-confusion" away too I hope the clock will work soon again.. and as Asri said.. keep up the good work.. This site is really amazing, thanks!
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Caliburn
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Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:13 am Post subject: |
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In "SST 1.5" we will see if we can include the timer again. |
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 Alchemist
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Sun Jul 09, 2006 11:27 am Post subject: |
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It seems the timer is back! Great!
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phireangel
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Mon Jul 10, 2006 3:25 am Post subject: |
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YESH!! its super duper very good to have it back! thank you for fixing it SAM!
*phirehugs*
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Asriana
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Mon Jul 10, 2006 7:24 am Post subject: |
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Thank you for fixing the clock! You guys are the greatest!
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