> And yes - I also get occasional drop outs, skips and hang ups with > Rhapsody on the SB3 that do not occur with the Rhapsody PC client.
Come on, tell the truth. Do you occasionally have problems with Rhapsody or are you astonished during the rare (if ever) times when Rhapsody works as it should? For myself and everyone I know with a SB, it's the latter. > I think the QA should setup a testbed SB and play a long playlist of > several hundred songs and verify the stability of Rhapsody Direct over > time. Or how about just trying to play one album? Screw the long playlist over time - the simple ability to play a single album without issue would be a massive improvement. > I can understand that a non-geek consumer would find it difficult to > accept the instability. And I would think the geek would be frustrated as well. I don't code, but I had enough "geek" in me to accept all of the SB's "quirks" (I say this kindly) because 1) There were not many other competitive options and 2) the open source Slimserver and all the plugins that came with that made it fun. But the reality is that the vast majority of plugins really had no use after the "cool - look what else I can do with my squeezebox" factor wore off (e.g. an RSS Reader on a tiny screen across the room) and most of the plugins that were really useful came with plenty of quirks of their own (Rhapsody back in the day when it was a plugin, Live Music Archive, Sirius and XM Radio to name three). I'm dying to know if people have the same problems with the Sonos, Roku and others? Right now the Roku is 149.99, is tightly integrated with iTunes (based on its native support of ALAC and AAC), and works with all Play For Sure formats. Granted, I can't read RSS feeds on it and it won't support FLAC or OGG. But given that 90 percent of people manage their music with iTunes these days - if it actually works, it's probably a much better alternative than the quirky box we've been using for years. -- Chop ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chop's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=388 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42501 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
