Over the weekend I went through the very painful process of upgrading
from 7.3.3 to 7.4. I know if it aint broke dont fix it - but 

First time install works OK - I add the plugins that I had under 7.3.3
restart server. Music scan takes a while. I wait. No problems all OK.
Reboot machine and none of my SBoxen can connect.

OK - thought this might be down to not fully uninstalling 7.3.3. So I
unintsall everything and then delete the folders.

Redo everything again - same result (why wasnt I surprised ?). I
investigate further and see that the server partially starts but cannot
communicate with ports 9000 and 9090.

Looking in here it seems that problem is caused by trackstat plugin. I
cannot get into the web consule to disable it - so another uninstall and
reinstall is required (complete with an hours wait for another music
rescan).

This time I dont install track stat and it seems more stable - at least
my SB2 can play music, the SBC seems OK - but the SBR in the kitchen is
not a happy bunny - keeps getting the blue 'cant connect to server'
light, which comes and goes (it didnt have a problem with 7.3.3).

Itunes update plugin also doesnt seem to work - at least I cant find
the update_hist file (not updated since the change from 7.3.3 to 7.4)

So at least trackstat and itunes update plugins dont work. I know they
are 3rd plugins - but I had no idea that they would stop working. 

I wasted a considerable amount of my weekend on this - and its only cos
we love our SBoxen that I am willing to continue.

I am tempted to go back to 7.3.3 - but I like the new interface on the
controller and would 
really like this all to work.

So my basic question – is what works OK under 7.4 and what causes
problems ?


Slim server runs on an Atom powered server running XP home. I also have
AVG running and the windows firewall (though disabling the later seemed
to make no difference)

SB2 in lounge
SBR in kitchen
SBR in dining room
Boom - wherever !


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