After caching all the files, it is quite faster and efficient loading the covers!
About the new option, when will it be used? Instead of Full Covers? I currently had this url assigned to cover_url_full...
My measurements indicate that the loading speed is 5x faster for FULL covers and even more when comparing with HQ covers.
The HQ covers are saved in same file as would FULL covers (covers/full/ID.png).
But the difference is this:
if the cover exists but is not HQ then the HQ url is used to download a new one.
if HQ cover fails to download (if it doesn't exist on wiitdb) then the full url option is used to download a normal full cover.
You could achieve something similar by adding the HQ as the first full url, but in that case if you already have a normal full but on the server someone uploads the HQ full then it will not be retried because a full already exists.
I guess my explanation is somewhat confusing but you get the picture (or cover in this case).
QUOTE(cambric @ Apr 3 2011, 01:57 PM)