I just "upgraded" to Squeezecenter 7.0.1 from 6.5.whatever I had before.


While I run iTunes on my machine, it's there purely to manage content
for my iPod.  My main music library is all WMA Lossless, and iTunes has
a partial copy in a much lower-fidelity form.  When I installed
Squeezecenter, I made sure the "Use iTunes library" option was
unchecked.  And yet ... once Squeezecenter had finished scanning my
library, it went off and scanned my iTunes library too.  So I checked
my settings, and the "use iTunes" option was still unchecked.  Huh?

Next, I started looking around the new UI.  While it's pretty, it is
DOG slow, at least on IE 7.0.  Since I know how much the webbies I work
with prefer developing in Firefox, I tested using FF and sure enough,
Squeezecenter felt much snappier.  Yes, everyone loves to hate IE and
Microsoft, but personally, I prefer IE's UI to Firefox.  Please don't
make me run a different browser just to use my music player.

Lastly, I took a look at the scanner logs.  Imagine my surprise when I
noticed that, despite my being very specific about where to look for
playlists and music, Squeezecenter had gone off and scanned all sorts
of other locations on my system, so all sorts of whacky playlists
created by apps I've used in the past like iPodder suddenly show up in
Squeezecenter.  So now I have to go and remove them manually, when I
didn't ask for them to be added in the first place.

Overall, not very impressive.


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