iainshaw;202225 Wrote: > I'm trying to get a feel if this product can be used in professional > installs with any confidence. By "professional installs", you're referring to setting it up for a paying customer and then expecting it to work for them when they're on their own, right? A number of things strike me:
1. Don't install Slimserver on a general-purpose computer the customer owns. One day he will install some software or hardware on it and destabilise the thing. You'll need to supply a dedicated server. 2. Even if you get a wireless installation going rock-steady, the minute your back's turned someone next door will fire up some device that will kill it. Use wired unless it's absolutely impossible. 3. The biggest barrier to the man in the street being able to cope with a system like this is getting his CDs ripped and tagged. The average joe doesn't understand that audio CDs don't have the necessary data on them. They'll be bemused why they need an internet connection to get the tags, and even more irritated that the tags are often wrong or misspelled. You say you do a lot of Sonos installs: how do you cope with this issue in those cases? 4. Expect to get lots of after-sales support calls. And of course, the majority of them come from the most clueless customers who simply cannot grasp simple things you try and explain to them. Perhaps you should make potential customers take a test before agreeing to install a system like this for them :-) Conclusion: perhaps it's not worth the trouble. FWIW, my Slimserver setup has always worked like a charm, even though it's running on a low-end (533MHx mini-ITX) Windows 2000 box that is also the general household server running Apache, Oracle, VPOP3, a number of bespoke services, and a couple of printers. I don't run the latest release (currently on 6.5.1). -- cliveb Performers -> dozens of mixers and effects -> clipped/hypercompressed mastering -> you think a few extra ps of jitter matters? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35307 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
