My SB2 turned up from MultiTask today :-D Plain black wired.
On Apr 5, 2005 2:06 PM, Dan Goodinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've not seen SB2 in the UK yet, although in fairness I've not looked > too hard as I'm happy enough with SB1 for the moment. > > I've seen discussion of various issue/problems with the slimserver v6 > release, but don't be overly concerned. From my own experience, I've > had it running solidly for most of the weekend after a very recent > upgrade (mainly streaming radio, but also a good few hours of MP3 > playback) and it seems fine. I had a minor issue with DB corruption > which was very easily fixed by upgrading to a new "nightly" build. I > know that a lot of people here would consider nightly builds to be beta > - perhaps that is the case, although I see it as kind of an intermediate > service pack (or a cumulative patch or something). It's listed on the > site as a maintenance release, so it doesn't worry me that much. > > I can't speak about the SB2 hardware, as I've not seen/used one. But > I've not seen much on these lists regards hardware probs... I would > imagine that the most serious problem would be intermittent restart of > the SB2 hardware. Again, based on my own experience with SB1, I would > say that the majority of reboots are caused by wi-fi interference, and > therefore something that Slim Devices can't control. If you experience > anything like this, sort out interference first (e.g. reposition the > device, or change channels, or get a directional antenna etc). Can't > comment on any of the other issues you refer to, though. > > But bear in mind that Slim Devices seem to be a cool company :) My > perception is that they are "safe" - if you experience any problem, and > find that you can't fix it then return the device for a refund. If it > were me, I wouldn't hold off getting an SB2 just because there may be > some issues - but these are issues you may never encounter, so don't > worry about it unless it happens. > > The support here is pretty cool, so if you encounter a problem there's a > good chance that it can be resolved through use of these lists. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Max > Sent: 05 April 2005 13:12 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [slim] New SB2 owner is getting a bit worried > > I'm completely new to the whole Squeezebox arena. I learnt about SB a > few weeks ago and now have a SB2 on order in the UK from > multitaskcomputing.co.uk. In the meantime, I've put together a > Debian/testing box with a large hard disk and have started ripping my > entire cd collection to FLAC using EAC. I'm running SlimServer 6.01 on > the server and am using SoftSqueeze on my pc. I've no idea when my SB2 > will arrive so, to steady my impatience, have started reading this > forum. I've therefore started reading all sorts of comments saying bad > things about SlimServer 6.0, and have also found comments saying that > SB2 will likely have hardware issues that will be resolved (in the > hardware, not the firmware) in future versions. It seems that I've > basically bought a beta-release hardware product which I'll be running > with a beta-release server. Obviously, this worries me quite a lot! Are > these things really true? Should I cancel my SB2 order immediately and > wait 6 months (or buy something else)? I'm obviously hoping that this > isn't the case. Please reassure a new member of the flock! > > As an aside, does anyone know what the situation with buying an SB2 in > the UK is? They seem to be in rather short supply! > > Thanks, > > Max Spicer > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
