Hello, First off I'd like to say that I find the SqueezeBox a pleasure to use (when it works). I've been using it for a few months now and I've definitely enjoyed the convenience of its remote control. There are a few things that *really* get to me, however, and as much as I've searched around, I could not find a viable solution for them. Essentially,
- The SlimServer interface makes listening to music really frustrates me. I (personally) just want to brose my folders and play music from them. With SlimServer, I hit one impediment after another; I've posted about these on separate threads, but essentially: * I'm being unable to browse a directory if I've capitalized its filename * it's slow (I think because it's trying to download the artwork, but even I open a directory containing only directories, it's still slow to return an HTML page). * it's got too many dependencies (mysql, perl, etc.... apparently SlimServer's way too sensitive to API changes on their parts. * it's ugly no matter which skin I put on it. It's not that the colors and fonts are ugly, it's the whole layout; a decent music player like amarok nails it in my book where user-friendliness is concerned. - The remote control's "seek" function doesn't work like a traditinal one does: I'd rather seek by pressing and holding the seek button, as opposed to pressing it once to start the search and again to end it. - I haven't found a way to _disable_ displaying artwork for albums. If my Internet connection's hosed, then SlimServer will take ages timing out waiting to download the artwork (and I don't know from where it's downloading it, either.. I don't recall finding such a setting through the SlimServer UI) - Sometimes plops and squeaks pop up before a file starts (someone's raised this issue in another thread). For me, it sometimes happens in the middle of file playback, too. So I just wanted to know how, short of coding something myself, I can control the SqueezeBox3 directly through Amarok (with remote control support as well). I really can't stand the SlimServer UI, and I don't know how anyone else can. Thanks, - Roey -- roey ------------------------------------------------------------------------ roey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5735 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29438 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
