keithleng said the following on 21/09/2005 12:35:
The truth of the matter is that the squeezebox software is, and always
has been, very flakey. It is largely written by enthusiastic amateurs,
and it shows.
This is complete boll***s.
slimserver, particularly the release versions is very stable. I run the
latest development code (aka svn trunk), updating regularly - usually
daily. I've only seen one or two crashes in that time, and they've been
in peripheral areas of the code and have fixed very quickly.
The actual streaming code is very stable - I've never seen problems with
that.
I bought my first one a couple of years ago, ran into all sorts of
problems and stopped using it. I recently decided to give it another
try and bought a Squeezebox 2. I'm in a different city, using a
different ISP, computer, router, and operating system from when I had
the first SB. And I'm still getting lots of problems.
Have you tried asking for help here? A quick scan through the emails
gatewayed to gmane suggests that this is your first post.
If you can give it a dedicated system, with nothing else running, and
no competition for bandwidth, it now seems mostly okay. If you can't
give it that level of resource, then, in my experience, you're going to
have constant, recurrent hassle.
Again, rubbish. *Some* people (hi Simon!) have experienced constant
problems with their Squeezebox/slimserver, but for the vast majority it
just works.
Now, rant out of the way, why don't you tell us what problems you're
having and we can try and get things working for you?
Indeed, if you're running on a Unix box and can allow me ssh access,
I'll have a look at your server and see if I can sort things out.
R.
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http://robinbowes.com
If a man speaks in a forest,
and his wife's not there,
is he still wrong?
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