Reeshar;508538 Wrote: > Thanks for your replies! > > Some responses... > > @raven22: Yes, there's no doubt the ReadyNAS is relatively slow when > using conventional HTTP access. But our SB3s (which I assume are > more-or-less thin clients running directly off the server) work pretty > fast. But you may be right: how does the Radio interface to the server > software? > > On album art, no it isn't displayed fully. Album art is typically > square (eg, 300x300) and the display is 4x3. So the art is cropped top > and bottom to fill the display. > > @aubuti: Half of an SB3 remote is taken up with numeric/alpha buttons > which allow you to navigate quickly to a particular artist or album, > just as on a mobile phone. Not only do those keys not work properly with > the Radio but some do quirky things like play an apparently random > album. I would have hoped/expected that Radio (and Boom, although I > don't have one!) would be able to accept these fuller function remote > capabilities, especially as I have a moderate-sized library of around > 11,000 tracks/850 albums which makes rotary dial navigation tedious. > > _________ > > I agree with your sentiments of hoping that the issues will be > addressed by firmware updates. And I'll knock up a Linux box running > Squeezebox Server (still using the NAS as the music store) to see how > the Radio performs with that!
You are right about the album art, I thought that you mentioned that it was not resizing to the window. It does but a small part is not displayed. About the searching issue, to make that easier for me I installed the custombrowse plugin and created a submenu with the letters of the alphabet. So you first select the A or B and so on and then the artist name. This makes it a lot easier to scroll through a large collection. -- raven22 Setup: 1 SB3, 3 Booms and 1 Radio. Server: SheevaPlug running Debian 6.0 Squeeze on SD-card with SqueezeBoxServer 7.5.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ raven22's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16511 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74259 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
