Last modified: 2013-10-30 21:09:19 UTC
Sound performance report on Galaxy Nexus 4.0.3 suggests sound files are downloaded each time they are clicked (and pronunciations tend to be clicked over and over again as someone tries to memorize it.) This is both a performance issue and a data use issue.
Assigning to Tony Cheng
Yeah, the media is being downloaded and played every time as i figured the audio files for a single word in .ogg was never going to be that large. I could get audio to be stored in some kind of cache.
(In reply to comment #2) > Yeah, the media is being downloaded and played every time as i figured the > audio files for a single word in .ogg was never going to be that large. I could > get audio to be stored in some kind of cache. Yah, I don't think it's huge for downloading, but it is causing a performance issue for people on slow networks. The complaint was about sound quality due to the downloading issue, not bandwidth. But a cache solves both.
(In reply to comment #2) > Yeah, the media is being downloaded and played every time as i figured the > audio files for a single word in .ogg was never going to be that large. I could > get audio to be stored in some kind of cache. It's not *that* large, but the audio I've been recently adding clocks in at approx. 280kbps. Single words measure about 30-50 KB and longer phrases (such as those in the phrasebook) can be 2-4x that size. These are relatively small sizes compared to streaming video, but large enough that the latency on cell networks makes repeated listening painful.
[Merging 'Wiktionary App'&'Wikisource App' into 'Wikipedia App', see bug 41922]
