While I have no objection to making improvements, establishing standards and consistency, I am concerned that this major upgrade has been released with essentially no corresponding updates to the documentation that is available for users on the Wiki or the Logitech support site. I have a SlimDevices-labeled, original SqueezeBox and the documentation for it provided on-line by Logitech still refers to SlimServer, etc. The Wiki only references SqueezeCenter. I implement IT systems for a living and my clients are *not* interested in having a new system installed without getting documentation and training *before* it happens.
Considering that it takes the better part of a day to do a full rescan of my music library (~110,000 songs, ~8500 albums, ~1,900 artists with individual albums), and that I (finally!) got SqueezeCenter to organize artists/compilations in an acceptable manner, I am not inclined to simply take it on faith that Logitech has truly "improved" the software that currently does *exactly* what I want it to do. Will my favorite plug-ins still work? I use Super Date Time, Lyrics, Biography, and Album Review all the time. I can't see any indication that the new version has been tested with them, which essentially means that users are going to have to do so and report back to the community. Often, for major commercial software releases, a beta testing period is publicly announced, add-on developers participate, interested users do some voluntary testing and the results are reported in advance of the final release. Given that this release is *required* in order to use the full functionality of the hardware, software, and remote resources, that approach would have been appropriate. This is, to my recollection, the first release that is truly a complete departure functionally from its predecessor and I've been using this product since SlimServer 6.x. Which is not to say that the transition from 6.5 to 7.x was painless. It wasn't until release 7.2 that I was able to get a clean install to complete. Previous releases crashed and burned badly and I spent many hours reverting back to 6.5. So, since the only SqueezeNetwork resource I really use is the Live Music Archive, and anything I find there that I really like I download as FLAC and play locally, I think I will wait a while (maybe a long while) to see what happens with the next few iterations of the new implementation. -- get.amped ------------------------------------------------------------------------ get.amped's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10022 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68521 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
