autopilot wrote: > Ben, what a legend. I know what a huge part you played in making it all > happen. Thank you :) > > I wish I had not mentioned 'stability'. That's not really what I wanted > to convey. It's more general maintenance, for example my wife or young > children wanting to buy and add a new album and not having a clue where > to start (where to buy, how to download, how to rescan...). Or when a > plugin breaks, or the firewall inexplicably plays up... I know none of > theses are insurmountable though. As I said, most of my devices are > barely used now so I just wanted to swap them out for devices which will > get more use and free up some much needed funds. I work away so much and > my wife and kids are the main consumers now. I know Apple had its faults > and limitations, but I will be a adequate stand in. In fact the airport > express (via airplay) is mainly for her and she mainly listens to > podcasts and BBC iPlayer (the touch iPlayer app stopped working about a > week back for me). Anyway, fingers crossed, but I'm hopefully changing > careers next year so I will have more cash spare. I'll move back up the > ladder when I can. But for now it's goodbye. The fact that I am writing > all this, which I've never done for anything else, is testament to how > much pleasure the squeezebox and it's community has brought me. It's > like saying good bye to an old friend. > > aubuti, yes 2005 was a fine year indeed. Cheers buddy :)
Good bye and welcome back if ever a successor product arrives (if the community projects yields anything beyond pure niche ) :) Do participate in the music subforum ,as many adults i dont have many friends thats really into music anymore must people lose the interest as they age (I have to to some extent ) . If I asked in my workplace "hi guys heard any good music lately" I would just be meet with a stare , it was something else way back . So music hints from the forum is a great inspiration . Yes everyone always assumes that all people rip CD's and download files and fineness the tagging and order everything into nice folders anyway and treat that part as a given . "And how hard is it to point another software to the music ?" . If you havent ripped your files it is actually many hours of works before the collection is in and well maintained . Apples concept of you buy the music and it's there available everywhere is a user friendly solution (on the other hand their sync solution is maddening why cant i just put some files on the freaking thing ). The store is in the player software and players do make some sense (it is also a problem ,but we can vent that topic elsewhere ). On the other hand a user like me like to collect files and rip CD's and fiddle with them , it's my "stamp collection" to use an analogy . The problems seems to cluster on some users for unknown reason their players never connects their scans always fails plug-ins never loads etc , their firewall and AV software mess with the software and on and on thier wifi is a mess ? I'll try help in the forum and also use beta software so that the most grotesque bugs have chance to bee weeded out before the general user base face them . Even when doing that I only have one systems the bleeding edge beta has always been stable enough on my system . Historically my only problem has been a yearly wifi ch war :) with my 14 closests neighbours until I just wired everything that did not move (it simpler and works better a k.i.s.s solution that suit an engineer like me . Cable =simple ,data over very weak radio transmitters = complex ) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100307
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