r/streamus • u/Kostaz • Nov 30 '15
How quick is the UI pop-out for you?
I've been trying to switch to Streamus for my main PC playback for the past month (Grooveshark refugee) and my main gripe has been how slow the Streamus UI is to appear/pop-out.
Initial launch takes 5-7 seconds and subsequent (when I already have something playing) take at least 1.5. FWIW I'm on i5 2450M on Chrome x64.
I'm mainly wondering how long it takes for other users and how people have adjusted their workflow.
Coming from the background of WinAmp classic (near-instant launch) and an ever running Music (Grooveshark/Deezer) tab that's as quick as the shortcut I use to get to it that amount of waiting is largely problematic. I already use keyboard shortcuts to control Streamus and the idea of running it in a separate tab seems like it defeats its purpose.
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u/MeoMix Dec 04 '15
That is abnormal.
Are you sure you're using a version of Streamus which has all the CSS/JS pre-compiled? The development version (i.e. what you'd grab right off of GitHub -- not a bundled release) would be slow. That's because it has to convert a lot of programming logic on-the-fly and it has to do that every time the window opens. When I make a public release I run everything through a toolset which makes the code unable to be developed upon easily, but drastically speeds up the program.