Using th 3/11 nightly on XP Pro, fishbone skin. I second a couple of these observations (recoginising that the software is still beta), in particular:
1. Web interface is slower, sometimes extremely so; on occassion so much so I have thought SimServer must have crashed....but it has not. 2. The search does not always work (which is already reported as a bug) and I think it is a bit confusing: if you select Search Music in the top dialog, it immediately goes back to Search Song but displays Live Search below, with a button that says 'Search for Songs'. But if you put in an artist name, it will give you any album, artist or song that has the artist name in it. It is not very straighforward and the old way was better. Then you also get results that point basically to nowhere (all you get is "Title:") On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 12:20:56 +0000, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 â 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 > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
