Frankly, I'm cautious about *all* software upgrades at this stage in the game. I've got over 25 years of hands-on, professional IT experience and I tend to push my own gear way beyond the limit of reasonable duty cycle and resource utilization. And one reason that it continues to work for me is that I'm very particular about what software and which version gets loaded on each platform. I review every patch that's released from each vendor and do a risk assessment based on the advantages that the patch provides against the potential havoc that it may cause. For major releases (OS service packs, etc.) I generally wait several months before upgrading and even then I'll migrate essential functionality to another machine before applying it.
With the Squeezebox software I stayed with 6.5 until 7.3.2 provided sufficient stability to make it the new plateau. I was force to regress to 6.5 several times before then. And, given that it takes almost an entire day to do an upgrade followed by a retrograde (9 hours per full scan), it is not something that I am going to take on lightly. Fortunately, I am in a position to wait since I really don't use the resource formerly called SqueezeNetwork. But I truly feel for those customers who were forced to upgrade either by the requirements of the device or their reliance on the on-line services. Maybe by the time 7.5.1 is released it will be worth considering... -- get.amped ------------------------------------------------------------------------ get.amped's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10022 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69945 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
