Lately I've been keeping 7.3, 7.4 and 7.5 trunk servers running all the time, plus I start and stop other servers with test libraries as needed. I don't have any issues, other than having to decline firmware downgrades when connecting to a different version of the server. For instance, if I switch Touch from a 7.5 server to a 7.4 server it will prompt to load an earlier version of the firmware. Just l-r swipe in Touch to decline.
Mostly I keep all of the players attached to one server and then occasionally move one to a different version just to test something. The players are pretty good about not automatically connecting to another server when the one they were connected to goes down, which helps a lot. I move older ip3k players between servers using the web interface. With Touch and Radio it's very easy to do in the player interface. I don't run virtual machines, but I assume that the two different servers must have different IP addresses, correct? One very big difference between 7.3 and later versions is that 7.4 introduced music library names (Settings > Basic Settings). 7.3 and earlier servers always used the computer hostname for the library name and having the same hostname for more than one SqueezeCenter, even though they had different IP addresses, always confused the hell out of players. Make sure your 7.4 and 7.5 servers have distinct music library names. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71174 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
