This is just a little vent.  I already know I'm the only one with an
issue, but maybe, just maybe, there is another soul out there whom I
can comfort with my tale of sadness :-)

I say the DUET is like playing Whack-A-Mole because just when I think
the thing has settled in to a nice little rhythm, POP! another problem
sticks it's head out of the proverbial mole hole.

Last time I used my DUET it worked fine (Sunday).  Last night about 15
minutes before lights out, I turned on the receiver I have upstairs,
threw on my headphones and was looking forward to about 15 minutes of
Internet radio.  What I got was 15 more minutes of messing around
trying to get it to connect to SqueezeNetwork.  Maybe it was down. 
Maybe the world had ended and I just hadn't found out yet.  I checked
the news tickler on my controller and if the world had indeed ended, I
wasn't the last to know.  I also noted, when I finally gave up and
switched to my server for 1 minute of music before bed, that the album
art was a little mixed up.  

So what gremlins snuck in and messed with my server during the day
yesterday?  Does anyone know if the hardware store has a powder I can
buy to sprinkle around it so these little vermin can't get in?  Of
course I want something that won't harm the environment.

So there you have it.  As near as I can tell after a few months of use,
the only thing you can count on when you turn on your DUET receiver
is.... well... I guess counting on not counting on it is still counting
on something :-)  One thing is for certain, since I can't count on
connecting to SN and I can't count on Rhapsody being there a high
percentage of the time and I can't count on this weeks favorite
Internet Radio station being there ever again (Texas T Blues...Damn)
then I over spent on this little carnival game now renamed
Whack-A-DUET.  I could have streamed my music files all over the house
in a much more effective manner with a much lower failure/frustration
rate.  And best of all, I could go to sleep in a relaxed frame of mind
instead of all ticked off.

WHACK! WHACK!  WHACK!

Seriously, no replies necessary.  WHACK!


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Howard Passman

Sorry slow to respond.  I don't spend that much time online.
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