Looks like this thread's gone cold, so either the problem is going away
or users are giving up.  I'll post this observation just for the
record.

After numerous trials and reverting to v7.4.x firmware, I found no
sequence of operations that would ensure the album art and user control
(+key) features on Rhapsody and Pandora worked all the time; they seemed
to come and go at random, so I re-upgraded to V7.5.1 r9009 to stop the
constant nags to do so.

Once while it was not working, I noticed a screen “Could not connect to
mysqueezebox.com, if this persists,...”  <poof> that never persisted
long enough to read the whole of it. Pandora and Rhapsody would
nonetheless display playlists, channels, etc., and play them, but
without the artwork and control features.

Despite the above dialog, logging into mysqueezebox.com with a web
browser and examining the player tab, however, showed the radio as
being “connected.”  Manual disconnect attempts from the browser
instantly reconnected as long as the SB radio remained powered up. 
Rhapsody and Pandora continued to display and play without the album
artwork or control  features.

I forced the SBradio to disconnect by pulling its power, then forced a
disconnect and removed it via the browser at mysqueezebox.com.  Factory
resetting the SBRadio then caused it to go back through the entire setup
dialog including the account email and password for mysqueezebox.com. 
With that done, artwork and control functions reappeared on both
Pandora and Rhapsody.  The MyMusic functions, however, now return a
dialog that a Squeezebox server must be downloaded, installed, and
running. 

When I first began using the SBRadio and before all the problems with
artwork and controls began, I recall seeing a “connecting” dialog when
changing back and forth between MyMusic (on the SBServer) and Internet
Radio, Pandora, or Rhapsody (via mysqueezebox.com)  That behavior has
changed, or else the “can't connect” dialog appears instead, but is so
fleeting that I don't notice it. 

>From the SqueezeOS Architecture description: 

“Two modes of operation are supported. Firstly when the user has one or
more SqueezeCenters located on their local network. In this scenario all
the audio players and SqueezeOS-based controllers are connected to the
SqueezeCenter. The SqueezeCenter controls the state and actions of all
connected devices. Internet services are available via the OPML/http
connection from SqueezeNetwork (this is planned for SqueezeCenter 7). 

The second scenario is when the user is not using SqueezeCenter (either
they don’t have it installed or the PC is turned off). In this case all
the audio players and SqueezeOS-based controllers are connected
directly to SqueezeNetwork.” 

It seems to be the “PC is turned off” part of the second scenario that
appears not to work reliably. Since I don't intend to use a SBserver
regularly, I will not run it nor allow the SBRadio to connect to it.
We'll see if that fixes the problem with Rhapsody and Pandora (which
are all I really need, anyway.)


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