Good Morning, OK, I've been getting acquainted with Squeezebox these past few days. Thank you to everyone here for helping me. Logitech should give you all a commission!
I've taken a close look at Squeezecenter and Squeezesoft. Some things I like, some things I am still puzzled about. Before I dive in and spend the money on a Squeezebox system, I want to get all the information I can about this. OK here are my initial responses to what I've reviewed so far. Of course, I haven't had a chance to see a player in action, just the software. Please correct me if I'm missing something... BETTER FIT FOR MY COLLECTION My musical tastes go from punk to electronica to jazz to classical. One of my frustrations with iTunes is that it's unfriendly to classical music fans, since you only have two fields: artist and composer. You cannot parse out orchestra (band) information. Anyone who is a classical music fan knows that this is important for any complete library! I'm glad to see that Squeezecenter gives me these additional fields for my classical music. That's excellent! SQUEEZECENTER SOFTWARE Kind of clunky. I'm computer savvy, and got it set up to look and work the way I want. But it's not very straightforward to browse your collection, and the look of it is just off-putting. My wife, for example, would take one look at Squeezecenter and never use it again. It's just confusing to a non-techie. I've looked at the alternative skins, but most of them are even more confusing than the "default." I'll take a look and see if there are better skins and functionality available. The software seems a bit unreliable. Sometimes, for example, I click "albums" and the information appears, other times I click it and nothing happens. SQUEEZESOFT I like the idea of being able to manage my collection from my local machine, but the software seems a bit rough at this point. This looks like a new concept, so I suspect Logitech will offer something better in the future. OVERALL I really like the availability of the various radio stations and music services right from Squeezecenter. And all the options for tweaking how it runs are excellent. I just wish the software worked a little more smoothly. Having my music collection easy to view and work with is important. I'm still looking into all this! -- MatthewSchenker ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MatthewSchenker's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31516 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65350 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
