erland;640423 Wrote: > Just to save you some time, have you realized that you need a separate > UPnP client to see any of the LMS specific features ? The differrence > between 7.6 and LMS from a functional perspective is just that LMS > scans video and picture files and exposes these to a UPnP client. There > are no differences visible through the normal user interfaces besides > that you can configure multiple media folders instead of just one. > > If you aren't interested in the UPnP interface for usage with Logitech > Revue or another UPnP client, there is no reason for you to spend time > on testing LMS at the moment, besides the UPnP interface it's just a > more buggy version of 7.6. > > If you are still interested to try LMS and are willing to run it as a > virtual computer inside VirtualBox, I can arrange a preinstalled > VirtualBox image for you to try, in that case just let me know. The > VirtualBox image will use Linux internally but unless you plan to help > implementing bug fixes and providing patches, you just have to start it > and no Linux knowledge should be needed. > > Or maybe someone have a perl 5.10 installation directory which they can > share to you.
Thanks a lot for your proposal I already have Virtualbox, Microsoft Virtual PC, several virtual machines running different flavors of unixes and Windows XP Actually I could do that myself and run on a virtual Windows 7 x64 (I have virtual XP, but creating a new virtual 7 x64 just for LMS is a big too much, time and disk space consuming ...) Just to be clear, my main concern in the following : - I was pretty satisfied with 7.5.2, except than scanning performance was not acceptable (SBS or TinySBS) compared to popular music softwares. - I was ready to put the Touch on sale after release of 7.5.3 and 7.5.4, too many new problems, no single new feature interesting for me and the way I use the Touch. You will say I could stick with 7.5.2, but performance was not up to date with modern softwares, and mysqueezebox.com would probably keep on asking to upgrade firmware. - trying 7.6 convinced me to keep the great piece of hardware the Touch is, and I didn't put it on sale - Now, it appears that 7.6 could be dropped, and we could have to wait several monthes for LMS, with no idea if this piece of software will be acceptable or not (7.5.3 7.5.4 and 7.5.5 are not acceptable as far as I am concerned) - So my only concern is to check if LMS has a chance to be viable on Windows 7 x64 without too much hassle (Windows 7 x64 is a great piece of OS, I won't downgrade Windows, nor use NAS, nor Linux for a desktop PC, I could, I know how to do it, I have some virtual machines to test, but like almost every normal user of a desktop PC, I won't do it on a regular basis) - since I am quite experienced in software development, I think the best way to do that is to try LMS on Windows 7 x64, and see how development goes on. For me, this perl thing doesn't give confidence. - In the end, may be the real solution would be, like several other early squeezeboxes users, decide that a small silent PC running modern software and good external sound card would be much better than a Touch. I am taking some time trying 7.6 and LMS just because I would be sorry to reach that conclusion. -- nicolas75 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nicolas75's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15823 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86628 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
