keithleng wrote:
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.
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.
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.
troll, and untrue in most people's experiences. if you want to post
details and troubleshoot the problem you're having, please do.
that said, there are two areas that I would consider widely problematic:
1) wireless sucks. Kudos to Slim Devices for even trying to use such an
immature technology in a consumer product.
2) Slimserver will want the kind of resources you describe if your
library resembles the local radio stations... performance problems are
reported by people with tens of thousands of tracks. That number has
been going up since the 6.x conversion to SQLite, used to be that >5k
tracks would start to bog down.
--
Jack at Monkeynoodle dot Org : It's a Scientific Venture!
"I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin,
so across the Western ocean I must wander." -- All for Me Grog, trad.
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