Maybe this is old news, but . . . I have been struggling for a year with the squeeze controller and web interface. They are unresposive (particularly for a stereo system) and have counterintuitive interfaces. E.g., it is very hard for a non-techy to figure out how to successfully synch players. It is almost to the point that I regret entirely going with Squeeze instead of Sonos or Apple's airport express. I am not an audiophile and I dont need FLAC. I just want something that works.
But yesterday, I bought my wife an iPhone. As an afterthought I installed iPeng, not expecting much more than the squeeze controller software. The difference, however, is night and day. I am going to do away with my contoller and buy another iTouch just to run iPeng and so my ~$1000 investment into a squeeze system is not for naught. 1. iPeng on installation instantly connected to my server, found all my players, downloaded the music database, and was ready to go. Within seconds. Why cant the controller/web interface do that? Why does it need up to 2 minutes to find all the receivers/players even a year after I bought it? 2. iPeng is very responsive. You hit pause and the music immediatey pauses. You lower the volume and the volume immediately goes down. Why not with the Controller or web interface? 3. When iPeng starts up it instantly connects to the server and players. Why does the Controller/web interface need 5-30sec to do that? 4. iPeng's interface makes sense. E.g., to synch players you click on two from a list and hit sync, then it asks you which player's playlist you want to adopt for the set. Why does the Controller (or web interface) not have an intuitive way to synch players? 5. Squeeze is marketed (and I bought it) as a "whole-house" audio solution. But the controller is designed so that you have to "connect" to each player separately (which takes 5-30 seconds) just to change the volume or turn it on or off. Why? iPeng has what seems obvious a screen from which you can affect volume and power for all players instantly. Etc. Etc. Etc. This email is a bit of a rant because I had assumed till now that the problems were caused by my network or the inherent limitations of this kind of system. Obviously that is not correct. I realize that iPeng can use the iPhone's OS to display lots of eye candy and respond to gestures, but most of what I am talking about does not seem unique to the iPhone platform. In the vain hope that one more voice makes a difference, Logitech needs to contract Pippin or find some programmers of its own to create something like iPeng in place of the current controller and web interface and build similar apps for Blackberrys and whatnot. Regular people are not going to be happy with Squeeze until they have responsive, intuitive, beautiful controls. -- rksingla ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rksingla's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19702 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72308
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