Hi there, I'm relatively new to SqueezeCenter and just want put in my two cents: - I'm an owner of a squeezebox-duet and don't regret my purchase. It's exactly what I expected - and having a 7.3.3-firmware from beginning I didn't feel any glitches. All the basic function were really easy to set up - and it just worked. Thats how it is supposed to be. I recently stumbled about the headphones not working as I expected but still are expectand that this will be solved soon. In the meantime there is a workaround in this forums - what do I want more ?
- I once got in touch with support, because the Duet didn't want to wake-on-lan my NAS. This was handled very fast by 1st tier and 2nd tier support. - Two days ago I made the 'mistake' to install FW7.4. This totally broke my controller in the first place - in the meantime with a lot of cursing and I sleepless night I got back to 7.3.3. After some more reading in the beta forums, it turned out to be the language settings, so I tried it again. And what do I have to say ? I like it ! I can see progress and the direction where my duet will be going - not only is the UI nicer to look at, also switching servers has gotten easier - when I want to browse my music I'm asked which server/library I like - thats a good place (instead of it beeing hidden in some extended menu). UI is always difficult to explain / get right - but in my opinion its now more stylish - also such subtle things like sounds played when clicking/scrolling have been changed to be much more ear-friendly. Yes the fonts are to big (as german words are quite a bit longer than the english equivalents) - but thats not a thing I'm troubled about. As they release betas at least there is a chance to complain (and that should be done in beta-forums), before they can't chance anything in the final version. - I read that one thing to change in the future is server resources consumption. I think this is a good strategic decision. I'm one of those guys running SqueezeCenter on a NAS. That's because I want a low-power, mostly noiseless server. If you see that alternate systems (streamium for instance and most other) all go by UPNP (which are supported by mosts lowtech NAS's out of the box) I think that beeing able to be run smoothly on any NAS is MUST-HAVE for SqueezeCenter. Its still difficult enough to be run on a NAS but if that wasn't possible at all, I wouldn't go with squeezecenter. - I'm really like the open source character of this product. I'm not programming myself - but I'm able to read this forum/wiki see that others are developing, try their stuff out and I'm able to help myself. Yes that's some time to spent and you need to be a bit more advanced ... but hey - at what other product you get this ? So my conclusions: - easy to use for beginners on official firmware - much more options for advanced users with plugin architecture - lots to play (and curse) with the cutting edge latest 'beta' firmware. I hope that my still good mood as a relatively new user stays this way. -- bluegaspode ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bluegaspode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31651 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66745 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
