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I was away for a few weeks and now back, have had only a short time to experience v9 (42.2) in my car (MCU1) so far...Bert’s Media Player 9.0 2018.39.6 Initial Observations
I’ve now had V9 for a few hours, becoming acquainted with the new UI and taking MP USB through my previous testing regime to understand what may have changed. Following are my initial impressions for your consideration.
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- Erratic and sometimes almost unusable UI responsiveness, especially when changing views or coming in/out of Folder View. It can take several seconds when you touch or swipe up/down on the MP window, and your actions will stack, back-up, then run all-together after some point if you don’t wait for each action to happen first. I suspect MCU1 is approaching the CPU limits of the present V9.0 UI without some desperately-needed coding refinement, but we’ll need feedback from MCU2 owners to pin down an opinion. I do know that number of tracks and tag data does not seem to impact this issue (going from 7K to <100 tracks had the exact same problem in my MS).
but without any detailed testing I immediately noticed this severe laggy UI in the music player, especially when navigating the left side under "USB", i.e. when clicking successively in and out a a few times between Favorites, Songs, Artists, Albums, Genres, Folders. As noted, you can tap on something with no response for several seconds, and if you tap on successive things, the selections "stack" up in a queue and then run together later (10 or more seconds later). Basically the UI quickly becomes unusable - at times laggy, other times it seems to respond ok. But more often than not, with a huge annoying lag (reminiscent of the annoyingly slow web browser in the MS)
I first noticed it when checking the alpha-index on the right side within a long list of songs to see if the "off-by-one-or-more-letter" bug still exists (yes, unsurprisingly, it still has the problem). If you quickly swipe the alpha index up and down a few times in v9, that seems to be enough to bog down the UI responsiveness - enough so that the first time I tried that it seemed to slow things down so much I needed to reboot.
overall v9 UI look and feel issues aside, this crappy responsiveness in V9 is unacceptable and makes the USB player almost unusable
this being contrary to Tesla's promise of making the car better with each OTA software update