After normal pauses, channel changes, turn offs, and a power failure or
two since my first post, the album art and user control functionality
of Pandora and Rhapsody resumed being unpredictable with the r9009
software. I concluded that my earlier report of success with the SB
Server was overoptimistic.  Additional stops, turn-offs, power cycling,
and resets to factory settings didn't help.

I used the advice posted elsewhere on this forum to download an earlier
version of SB Server and "update" the SB Radio firmware to V7.4.r7790.  
Hopefully this will restore what had been acceptable performance with
mysqueezebox.com until the 7.5.x.x "upgrade."  I'll have to ignore and
bypass offered upgrades until someone reports on this forum that a
future upgrade actually works with mysqueezebox.com 

The variability others have reported suggests that network latency
might indeed be the cause.  Logging the SB Radio's network traffic with
Ethereal or the like might allow one to isolate a timing issue, but that
falls short of being able to fix it oneself in a closed product like the
Squeezebox. Prior experience with Logitech support trying to resolve a
time zone offset between SB Server and mysqueezebox.com suggests that a
diagnosis might not get it fixed anyway.      

If the album art problems reappear with SB Radio v7.4, I'll dump the
radio on ebay for whatever it will bring with suitable caveats to the
buyer.  Meanewhile, I'll bypass Logitech's software upgrades until
someone on these forums reports that a future upgrade actually works
with mysqueezebox.com  

I bought the SB RAdio for music listening, not as a hobby, but I have
been a product developer and a hobbyist and know and truly appreciate
the effort others make on these forums to reverse engineer and try to
make Logitech's product usable, even though that should be Logitech's
job.


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