bobkoure;273691 Wrote: > Had it occurred to you that they may have actually put some thought into > what functionality goes where? > The choice they made seemed pretty good - either you make two clicks to > rescan (well, three, if you don't want to just scan for what's new), or > you set it so it does whatever kind of scan you like every night. > Folks here have given you two ways to avoid those onerous three clicks > and your response is > Are you just having a bad day?
Nah, this scenario reminds of the threads about adding a NAS. Sounds simple right? Buy a $1500 NAS and do a whole lot of complicated stuff to settle for far less performance than you get on an $800 new Dell. Yes, it had occurred to me that they made it harder to update the music library for a reason. I concluded (there must be some reason that things aren't straightforward as they could be, right?) they wanted to keep the settings almost in a different space than the regular server so people wouldn't be in the config menus for regular player functionality. In fact after configuring SC, I doubt most users would even need to open it except to update the library or add a music directory. A tabbed format would accomplish separation IMO. It's the second browser window opening which bugs me. When you say it takes three clicks you're minimizing the fact that you have to wait for the slow java(?) interface to open. I count 5 or 6 seconds. Fair enough. Then another click and 4 more seconds as another browser window opens. (Why does a whole new browser window open instead of coming up in another tab like the SC initially does? Inconsistent. Yes, I know I can hold down ctrl.) Then click again to do the update. Then and I'm not sure about this but I think you need to leave the second browser open while it does the update and go back to your other browser back to what you were doing before being sidetracked. It's like opening Excel, and then needing to open the Visual Basic editor to perform a simple spreadsheet action. I do think the first solution given was the best but on the eve of a major release that's been in the works for months, well, seems sloppy to me. And this is the beta forum which I think is the appropriate context for picks and nits. "The good is the enemy of the best." Think about what that means. regards, David -- wireless200 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wireless200's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11887 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43941 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
