SC7 sync *is* vastly improved over SlimServer.  Long tracks stay in sync
now, poor network conditions don't throw off sync anymore.  Stuff that
didn't work well at all now works perfectly--I think it's fair to call
that a vast improvement.

That's not to say all sync bugs were fixed.  For example, gapless sync
was broken before SC7, and it continues to be broken after SC7.  No
significant change as far as I'm concerned.  You've expressed that you
don't mind the degree to which this feature is broken in SlimServer,
but many people, including myself, consider SlimServer's gapless sync
so badly broken that it's unusable.  Half a second or five years, a gap
is a gap.  I can't see how SlimServer's behavior was even remotely
tolerable, so SC7 is no worse.

I don't know where you've read that the developers have no plans to fix
this but that is not true.  There is already a bug filed on this topic
and the developers involved have expressed an interest in fixing it. 
It is an extremely difficult problem to fix, however, and the fix is
unlikely to be done anytime soon.  I don't think, however, that there
are any plans to revert from Broken Gapless Sync Method #2 back to
Broken Gapless Sync Method #1, because it wouldn't actually fix
anything and it would break the sync improvements that were actually
delivered with SC7.


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