Pillock. I've had five Squeezeboxen/Transporters and all have worked fine. All the ones owned by the five friends that saw mine and bought one all work fine too. It is certain that the very vast majority of people who own them have them working flawlessly too unless you think that only 30 have been sold and all owners have written to these forums. MC
slimdemage;171971 Wrote: > haunyack, > I have been out of the Slim World for a while after I returned my > Squeezebox. I thought the concept had potential, but like you I wound > up feeling the product does not perform as advertised. My guess is they > do not have a worthy development team. Just a guess, but it seems like > they need more programmers, and maybe pay them more, and have them work > more hours? I sense you are feeling the "void" and there is little more > they can do. As a test I often try softsqueeze with the latest Slim > Server builds (6.5.1). It does not play back music properly, and does > some of the things it used to do a year ago, like skipping the first > moments of a track and failing to playback gapless albums. I've tried > these tests multiple times with completely different PC's, routers, > wireless cards, and even the actual Squeezebox3. It still has > potential, but just does not work properly. I would estimate the value > of any of these products at around $50, considering the poorly > developed server software. Once they get the software right they might > have a solid hardware product. Apparently there are a lucky few who > have these products working properly (or someone pays them to say so). > You think? -- ModelCitizen Now what? Transporter > Naim NAP 250 > PMC OB1s. Music catalog: http://modelcitizen.mine.nu/music.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31433 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
