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- I appreciate your metaphorical approach and better understand why it can be so hard... Main reason I'm here is that I still have hope to convince the community on the benefit of having a stand alone mode implemented in Transporter ...otherwise you can convince me that current product is user friendly and will always play music when I want it.
... It is user friendly, and it always plays music when I want it. It's in fact 99% perfect. The remaining 1% produces a great deal of complaint. 1) You need to have your tags in good order, or be willing to put in some effort to get them that way. If you don't, you will be sad. 2) You need to have a solid wireless network if you're going to use wireless. "Solid" can not be inferred from "my laptop does IM and email okay." Also be aware that wireless conditions change. 3) Plugins are a major source of instability, and their interface breaks during most upgrades. Even good plugins can still cause problems when the external services they rely on have problems. Plugins bring in some really excellent functionality, but they're doing it with minimal testing, and they may have issues. 4) Computers are complex; their natural state is broken. Enjoy that it works when it does. If having it not work is going to cause you to pop a blood vessel, you should really buy something that doesn't involve a computer (not even the embedded NAS). I'm reminded of the old joke, "unix is user friendly, it's just selective about who its users are." -- "I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, So across the Western ocean I must wander" -- traditional _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
