Even with only 3 devices that I sync (in various permutations), I too find the new sync behaviour a bit of a pain.
In part it's just a learning experience, I think. If I'm in the living-room and realise I have to go upstairs for a while, I *guess* what I need to do is switch the controller to Upstairs, then ask to sync with the Living-room (or its group). But there's no quick way to synchronise all three players. I find the Synchroniser plugin more useful; and though it lets me create predefined sync groups (each with a designated master), I end up using its "sync all others to this player" option most of all. Only trouble is, it only seems to work if the master is stopped (not just paused), which renders all the nice mid-play sync work pointless. (A slight secondary problem of my own making was that after doing "sync all to this" one day, a few minutes later, I noticed a tinny echo of the music, which I eventually realised was coming from the Controller. Yes, I'd enabled the controller as a player, so of course it was included...) I miss the Other Players plugin (which wasn't available for 7.3 last time I checked); I found it intuitive and (a real boon) didn't have to keep changing players in the Controller in order to sync in either direction, or to grab/send the current playlist. I think I'm falling foul of another quirk with sync (but really need more tests to confirm): if any player in a group had crossfade enabled before sync, then even if it wasn't the master, the sync group will crossfade. The settings for the master still show No Crossfade. So then I have to cycle round the players to find the culprit and change it. It would seem more intuitive to me for the sync group to use the master's settings. (Quite right though that uniform volume control is optional.) -- Brian -- Brian Ritchie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brian Ritchie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2319 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57660 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
