netnewt;396282 Wrote: > Now to Squeezeplay. Oh my god! What a dire piece of software. A total > mess, which fails to provide any functionality. The ability to actually > PLAY music using it is an afterthought and it doesn't work properly. The > purpose of Squeezeplay seems to have missed the point entirely - it > enables you to control Squeezecentre... but why? We have the web gui to > do that and it does a much better job. > > I asked Logitech what the purpose of Squeezeplay is and they can't seem > to tell me. One of their own staff told me that Logitech had "completely > lost their way" and that Squeezeplay is "an absolute abortion which does > not work and is unlikely to get much better". I hope Logitech don't look > for a scapegoat - it was actually refreshing to hear an honest opinion > rather than the usual spiel. Finally, Squeezeplay STILL does not > synchronise with the hardware players.
SqueezePlay is beta software and right now is really just a direct port from the software on the Controller. The audio playback is being heavily worked on I can assure you that. The assertion that it "is unlikely to get much better" is completely wrong, that person is clearly missinformed. SoftSqueeze has been deprecated as the original developers (now official logitech employees) do not have the time to continue in it's development. So thats why it hasn't been updated to handle the changes made in 7.3, changes that were sorely needed to more forward with reliability. Squeezeplay will, in time, be a lot easier to syncronise with the hardware players as it doesn't rely on the Java audio stack that SoftSqueeze did. As I said though, it is under heavy development, so that functionality isn't there yet. And after writing all that, i decided to try it. fired up Squeezeplay and synced it with my Boom. Works a treat for me. -- funkstar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60075 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
