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An improved caching system for images would definately help. But this trick has to do with loading the images from the disk. The bottleneck here was the time it took to load the image into memory. The rendering of the images didnt seem to slow it down much.

I myself did other tweaks to the code for additional boost. All my mp3's are stored in folders as follows: <Genre>\<Artist - Album>\<Track> - <Title>.mp3. I took all my folder.jpg images and renamed to "<Artist - Album>.jpg" and put these album images on my ram drive. I changed the code in MP's GetCoverArt function so that it first looks in my ramdrive directory for "<Artist - Album>.jpg". If that is found, then just display it. The trick here was not to look for a folder.jpg on the directories corresponding to the mp3 file, but rather look for "<Artist - Album>.jpg" on one specific directory (this being a directory on my ramdrive).

<blockquote data-quote="htpcNoob" data-source="post: 13596" data-attributes="member: 11157">An improved caching system for images would definately help.&nbsp; But this trick has to do with loading the images from the disk.&nbsp; The bottleneck here was the time it took to load the image into memory.&nbsp; The rendering of the images didnt seem to slow it down much.I myself did other tweaks to the code for additional boost.&nbsp; All my mp3's are stored in folders as follows: &lt;Genre&gt;\&lt;Artist - Album&gt;\&lt;Track&gt; - &lt;Title&gt;.mp3.&nbsp; I took all my folder.jpg images and renamed to &quot;&lt;Artist - Album&gt;.jpg&quot; and put these album images on my ram&nbsp; drive.&nbsp; I changed the code in MP's GetCoverArt function so that it first looks in my ramdrive directory for &quot;&lt;Artist - Album&gt;.jpg&quot;.&nbsp; If that is found, then just display it.&nbsp; The trick here was not to look for a folder.jpg on the directories corresponding to the mp3 file, but rather look for &quot;&lt;Artist - Album&gt;.jpg&quot; on one specific directory (this being a directory on my ramdrive).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="htpcNoob, post: 13596, member: 11157"] An improved caching system for images would definately help. But this trick has to do with loading the images from the disk. The bottleneck here was the time it took to load the image into memory. The rendering of the images didnt seem to slow it down much. I myself did other tweaks to the code for additional boost. All my mp3's are stored in folders as follows: [b]<Genre>\<Artist - Album>\<Track> - <Title>.mp3[/b]. I took all my folder.jpg images and renamed to "<Artist - Album>.jpg" and put these album images on my ram drive. I changed the code in MP's GetCoverArt function so that it first looks in my ramdrive directory for "<Artist - Album>.jpg". If that is found, then just display it. The trick here was not to look for a folder.jpg on the directories corresponding to the mp3 file, but rather look for "<Artist - Album>.jpg" on one specific directory (this being a directory on my ramdrive). [/QUOTE]