I received my 2nd Duet system about a week ago (this is actually system number 4 as the first 2 were returned due to hardware faults).
Anyway, I noticed something surprising when using the new controller. Once it was connected to the SC server, I selected Music Library and then New Music and selected an album at the top of the list expecting to see the same (and annoying) delay before the track listing was displayed but I didnt - the tracks were displayed within a second or so. Now, the key point about this is that I had previously played the album in question using another controller. So my theory about there being a potential problem with the way that the controller caches track info/album art etc was wrong - it isnt the controller causing the problem - it's the music server! I confirmed this by selecting another album on the new controller that had previously been viewed and played using the other controller and the result was the same - no delay. However, if I selected an album that had never been played before by any controller, that same 10 second approx delay was present before the track listing was displayed. I thought that by playing an album via the web interface first may fix the problem, but it didnt. I have now performed the same test using 3 different PC's all running Vista & all with wired connections to the network and all running recent 7.0.1 builds of SqueezeCenter. I have ensured that my anti virus (Avast) has directory exclusions for all files under: C:\ProgramData\SqueezeCenter as well as the \media share on my NAS. As noted in my previous posts, this delay whenever you want to view an album on the controller is extremely frustrating, but I cant see anything in the bug logs that suggests that it has been recorded by anyone else. I will wait until 7.0.1 is officially released so that I can log a call with support, but if the problem cant be fixed, I will have to return both of my Duet's and draw a line under this. That would be a pity because everything else works well i.e. the web interface is responsive and I can play & skip tracks (WMA lossless files) using any controller without any problems and all album art is displayed correctly and there are no network drop outs etc. I *really* want this product to work and have hopefully demonstrated that I am prepared to put up with teething issues etc, but the amount of time I have spent on fault finding/troubleshooting has gotten a little out of hand. If anyone else has any suggestions for other things that I can look at/post (i.e. debug logs) to identify the cause of the problem, that would be helpful. -- EliteAV ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EliteAV's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45121 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
