danco Wrote: > > But "written with Windows in mind" not only would not suit me, but > seems to me to be against the SlimDevices philosophy. > That is, one of the virtues of SlimDevices approach is that it is > cross-platform. As a Mac user (and others are Linux/Unix users) I > chose the Squeezebox precisely because it was not Windows only. > Possibly they could make more money designing for Windows only, but > money is not the only criterion. > Daniel Cohen
I just want a responsive application that plays my music. This is primary. All the rest (open source, radio, screensavers, news) are fripperies. Every single night I am frustrated by the time it takes for SlimServer (via remote) to list my music. Sometimes it can take well over five minutes before I am able to play my chosen song! I am convinced that applications designed in Perl do not work very efficiently on Windows. With this in mind I couldn't care a toss if it's open source or if I have to pay more to get the thing I want (it's bound not to be much in the scale of things). I just want it to do the basics, fast and efficiently (yes, on Windows). Most apps written in C++ or .Net seem to work pretty well in Windows, whereas apps designed in Perl and Java (large overhead and flaky versioning) often lead to trouble (witness original SoftSqueeze install messiness, Nokia phone app and even Azureus). The Squeezebox is a superb device but currrently I think the software lets it down (as does the case, but at least I can change that). I've been using SlimDevices stuff since the SB1 came out and it has been liberating and frustrating. I have spent far too much time problem solving and looking at this forum/list. I'd rather go fishing and listen to music. MC -- ModelCitizen _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
