* Richard shaped the electrons to say...
I made the move to 6.0 B1-1 last evening, with mixed results. Here are my findings:
Richard - thanks for the feedback. Most of these have been fixed in the latest nightly builds, and will be in the next beta release.
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)
Has the server finished scanning all your files? Did you have a large playlist loaded while viewing the web UI?
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.
What browser are you using? Fishbone skin it looks like?
Are there specific operations that you find are slower?
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.
This has been fixed - search now displays Artist, Album and Tracks. It sounds like you hit the fallback search, instead of the "Live Search"
4) The Advanced Search is a good step forward as a search improvement, NOT a replacement.
Agreed.
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.
Things like MP3 scanning have been speed up, but we're also doing a lot more at the database level. I've personally heard varying degrees of improvment, but most have been improved.
Know what type of system you're running, and specifics of your library would help.
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).
I'll let kdf answer this, as he maintains this skin.
7) Even after new install, had to select Wipe Cache to begin proper song cataloguing. Not obvious for the new user.
Did you install any of the 6.0 alpha releases?
8) Ogg files worked straight out of the box where I had to do some tweaking under 5.4.
Great.
-D -- They're techno trousers, ex-NASA, fantastic for walkies! _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
