I have had my wireless SB3 a few months now and have had many niggly problems. I bought it just for the internet radio facility - radio choice in the UK is at best pretty limited. To cut a long story short, to access Internet radio I have been manually selecting stations from within the SB3 - unfortunately this meant I could not access any of the AlienBBC stations or anything else not listed.
A new laptop has been bought and at last thought I had the SB3 under control - last night I was actually playing, for the first time ever, AlienBBC, no blips, pops stutters, yes it was working - real music. I created a new favourites list from within SB3 of purely AlienBBC stations and amused myself from jumping from free form jazz to early music via Norwegian fiddle music. It also sounded great. This is it - the key had been unlocked - however, that was yesterday :-( Today, I thought I would impress my wife by demonstrating how she can now, at any time, replay the latest Steve Wright show. So I switched on the SB3 and connected to the squeezenetwork - as per normal - shock horror, my new AlienBBC favourites had disappeared along with the AlienBBC facility. Switch on the laptop - fire up slimserver, nothing - make sure your SB3 is switched on - well I know it is - I am actually listening to it. The only way I can connect to the slimserver is to go into the SB3, and force a connection to the Laptop. It then coughs into life - hey presto the SB3 favourites again contain my new AlienBBC selections. However, go back to a SB3 to squeezenetwork connection, and I am back to an old favourites list. Why does the AlienBBC option disappear when connected to the squeezenetwork? Where does my old favourites list go to? Why can't I just use the SB3 as a stand alone item? Why can't slimserver automatically connect to the SB3? Why can't the AlienBBC stay resident in the SB3? And to cap it all, tonight I am back to serious stopping and starting on AlienBBC. It works fine for a while then goes into meltdown - one blip of sound every sec or so. I even had the laptop next to the wireless router with the sb3 next to the laptop - nope, no joy. SB3 on its own works fine - albeit with the limited functionality. Why am I spending hours and hours trying to get this thing going & reading endless posts? It is all becoming too hair shirt for me. It is a real shame as when it is working it is great. Also I can not criticise the level of support from Slim Devices. The whole relationship between the slimserver and SB3 is totally confusing. They just don't seem to get on. When slimserver is communicating with the SB3, is SB3 talking directly to the web, or is it going via the Laptop. Who knows. -- derekc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ derekc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7130 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29700 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
