IME one of the biggest disappointments of the Squeezebox is synchronisation.
There's the track restart you mention (and even then my SB2 and 3 are often unsynchronised for the first track), no crossfade on synchronised units and my set-up keeps displaying tracks it's not playing when units have been synchronised for a while. On occasion the track that is playing is not even in the playlist. The AudioScrobbler plug-in always logs the correct track so it's something to do with the server. My intent on buying an SB3 for the kitchen (having decided SoftSqueeze just wasn't going to be able to synchronise with the existing SB2) was that if anyone was sitting in kitchen and wanted to hear more clearly the track currently being played they could just synchronise it - that causes the restart and first-track-not-synchronised issue. I then thought I'd leave them 'permanently' synchronised and anyone wanting to listen could just turn the speakers on but that causes the track display problem. I also thought when we have a party these would be really good for playing music round the house - they're not for the reasons already mentioned. The result of this is the kitchen SB3 sits there as an expensive ornament most of the time which is both a shame and a waste of money. Don't get me wrong, I think this is a great device and the SB2 in the study is on most of the time, but it would be much better and more functional if only I could get the damn things to synchronise properly and display the correct track names when it does so. I assume it's something to do with my system (although I've no idea what) as otherwise I assume I'd see other people here complaining that synchronisation - one of the advertised benefits of the units - just doesn't work but when I see Synchronize music to more roomsBroadcast the same music or independent streams to 2, 10 or even 20 rooms by adding Squeezebox players to stereos in each location. ..on the SlimDevices page I wonder how accurate that claim actually is. Kevin _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
