CavesOfTQLT Wrote: > aubuti: I'm just about to splash out on a HG300 and was wondering > whether alien, lastfm, etc all work okay on it. Any other slimserver > issues with this model? > > Also, do you use one of those Nokia 770s (or anybody) with the HG300 > and if so, how's the performance? Thanks.
I have an HG250. LastFM works fine without any special steps required. I don't use AlienBBC, but others report it works fine. AlienBBC requires you to build mplayer from source, which can be done using the development tools available at linkstationwiki.org. I don't use a Nokia 770 (next year's toy??). My music library is only around 3000 tracks, which are mostly flac and a little mp3. I think the performance is fine: SB menus are responsive, the web interface is okay (although not exactly snappy), and re-scans take a while (10 minutes?) but I don't have to do them that often. No other slimserver-specific issues that I know of. But, my BIG CAUTION about the HG300 is that a number of users on (http://linkstationwiki.org/) and in the Yahoo group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LinkStation_General/) reported problems with "bricking" the HG300 when they tried to update the firmware. This happened not only with the unofficial OpenLink firmware required to 'open' the system so that you could install, but even with Buffalo's official firmware upgrades. So there was clearly a quality assurance issue somewhere. That was back in January of this year, and I don't know if it has been resolved yet. It was scary enough to me that I decided 250GB was enough for my purposes -- your risk aversion may vary. If you want 300GB, Daniel's solution of pulling out the hard drive to install a telnet daemon sounds like a decent workaround. Although if I wanted 300GB and knew in advance I would have to do that, I'd probably go with a KuroBox instead, especially since they just dropped the price of the HG. Daniel: how hard was it to crack open the box? My recollection from the forums is that opening the LS hardware is at least as fiddly as opening the software. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23171 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
