I made the move to 6.0 B1-1 last evening, with mixed results. Here are my findings:
1) FLAC. I have been running 5.4 since it was releases with never a skip on FLAC files. Every FLAC file I play on 6.0 B1-1 results in playback skips. Any suggestions for improving throughput? I am using a wired Ethernet Network with 3 Wired Squeezeboxes. (I did reboot my server and the problem seems to have cleared up somewhat � I still get drops when doing HTML web interface commands while music is playing) 2) The overall speed of the Web Interface is slower. Sometimes considerably slower. I have never had any sort of performance issues with the web interface under 5.4 and below, and have started experiencing some frustrating delays when using the server html. 3) Searching. Simply put, a frustrating step backward. When using the Fishbone interface, I could search for an artist out of my 17,000 simply from the browse pages, now I have to go to advanced search. When I try the Search Music screen, all I get is the names of songs returned not artists. This is not at all accommodating for the way I look for music. 4) The Advanced Search is a good step forward as a search improvement, NOT a replacement. 5) I thought cataloging music into the DB would be faster based on claims. I found it to take about the same amount of time as 5.4. 6) Fishbone Skin does not always display correctly. My personal choice of skin ends up losing its navigation on the left frame after some actions (I think after being in Server Settings and hitting Home link). 7) Even after new install, had to select Wipe Cache to begin proper song cataloguing. Not obvious for the new user. 8) Ogg files worked straight out of the box where I had to do some tweaking under 5.4. richard / at / richardascott.com _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
