Leeber;150619 Wrote: > Hi guys, 1st post so be nice! > > I have been planning to buy a few squeezeboxes to use around the house. > We have a Media Center in the living room which has our entire music > collection stored in WMA Lossless and a gaming rig in the study which > also has most of our music stored in WMA 192kb/s. > So anyway, in preperation for my squeezebox shopping spree, I thought I > would download and install slimserver on the study computer just so I > could get a feel for how it works. It was at this point that I learned > all about softsqueeze, so I installed it on the study computer, the > media center in the living room and my laptop (on a wireless > connection) in the bedroom. After a bit of messing around I found the > sync options in the slimserver software and so set them all up to play > in sync with each other. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work very > well for me. I rarely get to the end of the first song before it > decides to start again from the beginning (I presume because of a loss > of synchronisation). I'm now wondering whether buying the squeezeboxes > is such a good idea. > So guys, do the hard versions of the squeezebox work any better than > this? Do they cope well with playing in sync? Can they be configured to > do so from the unit's themselves or do you have to keep accessing the > slimserver software to enable/disable this feature? > I envisage having a mixed setup of squeezeboxes in some rooms and > softsqueeze running in the two rooms where there is already a computer. > So far though, my experiences with just the slimserver+3 softsqueeze > installations has not filled me with confidence. Obviously, if I'm > doing something wrong, feel free to jump in with any tips to get it all > working correctly. Thanks, Lee
I have had quite a few problems with softsqueeze, but being free I can't really complain. The hardware is way more stable. No comaprison. -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29158 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
