sxr71;441285 Wrote: > I really hate to say it but you guys are right. The quality of releases > is going down. I am using 7.34 which is just a minor upgrade on the > released 7.3 so I can't understand why it has so many problems. > > Then you have 7.4 which performs worse in every area from scanning to > performance and it breaks Trackstat. > > I loved the SC system for a year but I am close to giving up and just > finding something that doesn't require so much effort to maintain. I > want music, not a full time job maintaining a system. It's just become > very consumer unfriendly now. I mean you can't get Last.FM to work > because they screwed up the DNS function on the new FW. What were they > thinking? Then they screwed up the MySQL database that always worked > with some crap DB now. > > This system is going to dogs. I'm sorry to be so straightforward about > my feelings about this but something has to change if they expect to be > successful. I really hope they can make it work, but it seems the latest > changes are just flushing years of good work down the toilet. I hate to > see this happen. I recommended the product to several friends and hate > to see them suffer on account of my advice. > > Again I'm sorry for being so straightforward, but I had to say it. > Consumer friendliness is a MUST to make it in the market. When I was a > student I had all day to play with this and that, but now when I come > home from a hard day's work I just want the system to work. I don't have > the inclination to tweak this or that.
But that's the whole point of making the development release (7.4 in this case) available for testing - new features are introduced, they break stuff (often in a major way), this gets identified, bugs are fixed, new features are introduced and so on. I've been beta testing the latest development version since about 6.3 and this has always been the case. The quality of the development version will always vary from time to time because that's where all the new stuff gets introduced. I have lost count of the times that something key to me has broken in the development branch, if it's that critical I just roll back to an earlier version, if it's not I file a bug and wait for it to be fixed, but I always recognise I'm not running a release version and should expect stuff to get broken. My other half, now that's a different story, but he's very patient... I just don't follow the logic of saying that consumer friendliness is key (which I very much agree with as a general statement) but that it should apply to the 7.4 branch (or have I misunderstood what you are saying - if so apologies)? Where I do think the OP and others have a good point is about the Downloads page - the warning that used to be up on the old website about downloading the latest development version was much clearer - it specifically noted the warning you get in the forums that features may be broken as new code is introduced and should be considered as alpha. I strongly suggest this should be re-introduced in some form, as currently someone could well download 7.4 without understanding just how unstable it can be. -- Siduhe Who am I on 'LAST.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/siduhe)? "-Siduhe Loved Tracks radio got the thumbs up. Feedback included: yeah, it's good... got the odd dodgy track tho...-" (c) 'ModelCitizen' (http://www.last.fm/user/Modelcitizen) Oh yeah, I'm giving 'Twitter' (http://twitter.com/Siduhe) a try - and surprising myself how many interesting people are out there... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65677 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
