Hi All, I bought a Slim Device about 9 months ago. My initial setup was squeezecenter 6.x running on Ubuntu. I was pleasantly surprised to see how flawlessly the system installed and the device integrated with the server and other 3rd party plugins/internet radio etc. I went ahead and scanned in my 5000+ album collection and was off and running. Since then I have upgraded my machine to Ubuntu Hardy Heron and my slim device has had several firmware revisions installed up to the latest now. Since the latest server install, I have been riddled with problems that are part bugs and part just poor design. Things came to a head last night when I had a party at our house and tried to setup a playlist and run tunes through the evening. I want to post about my various issues and feature requests right here in one post. So here goes: ISSUES/BUGS - After using apt to install and try all three different versions of the server(stable,test,unstable) the server fails to start. I need to stop apparmor and the server runs but I need to repeat this during every restart of the machine. This is annoying. I see that a profile is loaded in apparmor but I am pretty certain that something is not cooperating between apparmor and squeezecenter.
- With all three different version, I am experiencing random skipping of music. At what seems to be random intervals, the music just stops playing and the slimdevice claims to be rebuffering. The wireless connection is solid and close to the access point and worked on previous versions of the device firmware and server software flawlessly. FEATURE REQUESTS - The Playlists! Good god, these are kind of a mess. The biggest complaint is that if I have my music on a removable device and that device is not connected, and I goto play a playlist, the server automatically removes all the dead links! This is a gigantic issue for me. I have lost numerous playlists that I painstakingly created. There should be, at the very least, an option that stops the system from nuking the playlist just because the removable drive is not mounted. - Along those lines, the playlist adding/editing is cumbersome. I have two separate feature requests here. 1) The confirm overwrite playlist checkbox should be there by default so that you do not need three clicks to overwrite a playlist. and 2) when you are browsing music and you drill down and add it to the playlist, there should be a way to easily return to the same list in the artist list or an option to select the letter from the artists again. It is very cumbersome when your only option is to go back to the start of your music list. You should be able to return right back to the artists list where you were browsing before you drilled down. I am concerned about the path this software is taking. It seems to be getting clunkier and more bloated when it started as a nice "slim" software package. Too many features, not enough testing, and not intuitive navigation is sinking this ship. I have also had a slew of otter issues with the SoftSqueeze component and I am not sure if they are related to the server or the java runtime or both. Please, please, please...somebody give me some guidance. Thanks, Larry Morroni -- lmorroni ------------------------------------------------------------------------ lmorroni's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18287 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49114 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
