2019-12-25, 02:19
New Beta Available (3.0.1~beta4)
- added options to change sleep time for main and slideshow threads
- fix for property cleaning
- changed entry point default.py to be less complex
For those who would like to reduce CPU load/temperature further, I've added some options in the ADVANCED section of the settings to let you change the sleep time for both the main and slideshow threads. While you can set the slideshow and main thread sleep times separately, AS will, from what I'm observed, behave outwardly based on the longest sleep times of the two threads.
Each thread has two different sleep times. A sleep time and an idle sleep time. The sleep times are the amount of time AS sleeps when you are actively displaying images. AS wakes up to check and see if the song has changed or stopped on this cycle. So if you increase this sleep time what you'll mostly notice is a lag between the start of a new artist's song and the start of the slideshow for the new artist. At 2 seconds I personally can see the lag, but it's not annoying to me. At 5 seconds I want to claw my eyes out. The idle sleep time only applies if you are using AS with a skin that keeps AS running all the time. When no music is playing, AS goes into a "deeper sleep" to try and reduce CPU usage further. As you increase the default setting what you will notice is a longer period of time between the black image and when the first artist image shows up. At 10 seconds I mostly saw less than 5 seconds before AS "woke up" because if you start a song in the middle of the sleep cycle you only have to wait until it ends, not the full 10 seconds. I didn't try anything more than 10 seconds, but I suspect if it got towards 20 seconds I would be clawing my eyes out again.
But hey, now you all have choices about when you're going to claw your eyes out. '-)
P.S. This is almost certainly the last update for at least a day or two unless I really want to get out of helping to fix Christmas dinner.
- added options to change sleep time for main and slideshow threads
- fix for property cleaning
- changed entry point default.py to be less complex
For those who would like to reduce CPU load/temperature further, I've added some options in the ADVANCED section of the settings to let you change the sleep time for both the main and slideshow threads. While you can set the slideshow and main thread sleep times separately, AS will, from what I'm observed, behave outwardly based on the longest sleep times of the two threads.
Each thread has two different sleep times. A sleep time and an idle sleep time. The sleep times are the amount of time AS sleeps when you are actively displaying images. AS wakes up to check and see if the song has changed or stopped on this cycle. So if you increase this sleep time what you'll mostly notice is a lag between the start of a new artist's song and the start of the slideshow for the new artist. At 2 seconds I personally can see the lag, but it's not annoying to me. At 5 seconds I want to claw my eyes out. The idle sleep time only applies if you are using AS with a skin that keeps AS running all the time. When no music is playing, AS goes into a "deeper sleep" to try and reduce CPU usage further. As you increase the default setting what you will notice is a longer period of time between the black image and when the first artist image shows up. At 10 seconds I mostly saw less than 5 seconds before AS "woke up" because if you start a song in the middle of the sleep cycle you only have to wait until it ends, not the full 10 seconds. I didn't try anything more than 10 seconds, but I suspect if it got towards 20 seconds I would be clawing my eyes out again.
But hey, now you all have choices about when you're going to claw your eyes out. '-)
P.S. This is almost certainly the last update for at least a day or two unless I really want to get out of helping to fix Christmas dinner.
