I found this thread through a search. I'm considering upgrading to a newer version, and wanted to see if the system will keep my settings or whether I'll have to reconfigure everything again. (Again). And you know what? I can 100% sympathise with the OP on virtually all points raised. I, personally, am not so worked up about it - but that's because some other poor soul has already gone through the effort of upgrading and has encountered all these problems that would otherwise have hit me too.
I love these forums. This community has always been extremely helpful when I've had questions, even when I've had stupid questions where the answers were just a search away... But seriously though - for the most part, I feel the responses have been pretty hard on the OP which I find surprising. So - the OP is more or less letting off steam. He/She has had problems, and isn't describing them with an end to fixing them - OP is just being angry about basically feeling let down about a couple of things. I can *completely* see what they mean! That's why I actually found this thread in the first place! If I didn't know how much of a hassle it was to upgrade (from experience going back several years of SB ownership) then I would have blindly went ahead with new version and - most likely - got myself in same situation as OP. Here's a list of OP frustrations that I can completely understand: -Software reliability... I can't remember a SS upgrade that has gone 100% without problems. A noteable one in my case was due to a brand new bug that actually made listening to music impossible until I rolled back the changes. So I can understand when someone gets annoyed that they've upgraded and hit several problems and has had to downgrade again. Because I've been there. -Effects and animation... Ok - so OP and myself have a different opinion on this, I guess. Sure, animations don't impress me that much but it's not something that cause me to be annoyed. -Settings... Heh. I am *so* with the OP on this. This is such a valid point, and is the ENTIRE REASON I even found this thread and have felt motivated to respond. This has been a hassle every single upgrade (for me). Reading that the system would keep current settings and then finding that some were still missing would annoy the hell out of me, too. Are there caveats to this? Are they documented? I'd like to avoid this frustration too, please. -Slim Network requirement... If the system requires SN to be up and running, then I'm again with OP on this. -tray icon... You've got to admit - it's fairly pointless, no? And just because OP (and a considerable percentage of other customers) are on Windows isn't a reason to be facetious. -Slim/Logitech: You guys/gals... The point here? Squeezebox is awesome. It requires SS, which in turn means that -once you've installed and configured it- (typically a couple of hours to get it exactly right, in my experience) then SS is awesome too. I think OP is trying to say that it would be great if you could download SS/SC, install it, then be up and running in 5 minutes without the (frequent) hassle of tinkering to get it set up properly. It doesn't work straight of of the box. I've been using it for 5+ years and it's NEVER been right straight out of the box. I would challenge anyone who says otherwise. -Me: I'm dumb for wasting my time writing this... Sadly there was not enough info on any of the issues to know what caused them (and therefore they can't be fixed). And original poster now has downgraded again. But I honestly was pretty shocked at the tone of some of the responses. He got no empathy. He ranted (which wasn't cool) but he had valid points. And yet the majority of the responses were either along the lines of "well it worked for me" or even derogatory. -Me again: I'm also dumb for "upgrading" to 7... Once again - I know exactly what this guy means. That's why I'm being really cautious about upgrading. And you know what? It's scary that people have to be so cautious before even considering an upgrade. It's -sensible- to have an element of caution - but you need to be almost paranoid when considering an upgrade or SS/SC. That can't be right, surely?! I feel like I've gone on a whole rant myself, which freaks me out a bit. Sorry for that. I just felt (and continue to feel) complete and utter understanding of the frustrations of OP and I was quite shocked by what seems (to me) to be such an unsympathetic attitude that seems to have been adopted in response to those frustrations. When did things all get so unfriendly? -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.4 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +AlienBBC 1.06 +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 55) Library of approx 9000 tracks (70% FLAC, 30% MP3) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47952 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
