I've had my Squeezebox Radio (SBR) since Christmas and have encountered several bugs and annoyances, some of which are mentioned elsewhere in this forum others not AFAIK.
This is my fourth Squeezebox product and a bit of a disappointment although hopefully fixable in due course. I'm running a ReadyNAS NV+ with stock 7.4.1 server software. That in itself and for the first time in my experience has been a bit buggy (Squeezebox 3's freezing on a Favourites screen) but that's a different subject. Also using the corresponding 7.4.1 SBR software. Here are my observations/issues with the Radio: 1) WLAN: I guess this is everyone's least favourite aspect of the SBR looking at other threads. I have a Cisco 1200 series AP using WPA2-PSK/AES. The SBR connects OK to the WLAN so long as it is at *just* the right distance from the AP. If I switch it on in the same room as the AP it won't see it or connect to it. If I try and connect in a weak signal area, it'll see the AP but won't connect. So you have to do daft things like use a long extension lead to get the SBR connected and then move it to its final position. Hopefully this will be less of an issue when the battery pack comes out, but it is really irritating - and very poor design. 2) Connection but no sound: I've had the SBR apparently playing a track but with no sound from the speakers irrespective of reselecting the track, volume control setting, or anything else I could think of. Power cycling fixed the problem. Not good though. 3) Slow response: Compared to the Squeezebox 3's, the SBR is really slow and getting itself set-up to play a track. Getting the album art up also takes some time. Poor first track buffering: The SBR often gets a bit ahead of itself and tries to play tracks before it's buffered enough data. The net result is that playback stutters to start with. This is very annoying if you're trying to play a track cleanly. Generally it works OK if you then restart it from the beginning of the track but this shouldn't happen. 4) Inability to play a single track directly off a compilation album: If I select an artist and it shows that that artist has a track on a compilation album you can't play that track by pressing play or select. Instead the SBR starts playing the whole album from Track 1. This is very very annoying. 5) Getting lost in the track list: I've had the SBR getting lost about what it is playing - and what it *thinks* it's playing according to the display. 6) Album art display: It's oversized with no control over how you want it to appear. This is different to photos of the SBR I've seen where the art fits entirely into the window. This should be a user-selectable option. 7) Incompatible remote control: Why on earth doesn't the standard Squeezebox 3 remote work correctly with all functions on the SBR? It seems beyond comprehension that although some key codes are the same others don't map correctly or aren't recognised. This is particularly important now before the accessory pack has been released. On top of the above I've had the SBR crash completely. These days it's behaving but only because it's staying plugged in in one room - hardly sensible for what is supposed to be a portable radio. :-( My overall impression of the SBR is that it could be very good but has been rushed out with insufficient testing. I see some people are running a later firmware version but I assume that requires a ReadyNAS update to the 7.4.2 Beta Server software. Richard -- Reeshar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Reeshar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35996 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74259 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
