pippin;487029 Wrote: 
> What's the problem with turning the players off?

The problem is remembering to do it each night.  Same as remembering to
unsync.  Either way I'm doing something out of the ordinary.  I
generally want all of my players to start playing when I select music,
so the "off" state is rarely used.

I'm not arguing with the technical reasons given in the bug report. 
I'm not a software engineer, and it sounds like a pretty big tear-up to
make an alarm sound on only one player in a sync group.  However, from
the end-user perspective there is a clear difference between an alarm
and music playback.  There are obvious reasons why music sync is wanted,
I struggle to see why anyone would want their alarms sync'd. 
(Especially as one starts to accumulate several Squeezeboxen.)  Rather
than an intended or desired feature, this seems to be a "that's just how
it works" limitation resulting from the underlying software
architecture.

All that said, I must be in the minority if this isn't a bigger deal in
the forums and on bugzilla.  So I'll just keep my old alarm clock and
use the Radio for music playback only.


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