Hello all, I just bought a squeezebox radio from the Logitech store and received it yesterday. So far I'm pretty impressed. One of the highlights of the radio for me was the ability to integrate with Napster. I'm a long time Napster subscriber and I was looking forward to the ability to search for songs, artists, and albums and play them on demand from the radio.
However, the Napster functionality seems to be dismal at best. Most of the time, selecting any of the menu entries in the Napster plugin (Top 100, Staff favorites, search, etc.) returns a list with a single entry called 'Empty.' A few times, I've been able to browse the top 100 artists or albums, but even then, it's intermittent. A few times, I've even received a 'parsing error.' I've done some research, and from what I understand, the Napster functionality isn't great. It sounds like these problems have plagued the radio for a long time now. The last messages I read were from earlier this year, but users made it sound like the capability had really improved with the latest update. Am I doing something wrong? Why does Napster not seem to work for me? Now, what I seem to have gathered is that the radio can connect to mysqueezebox.com OR you can host your own server software on your local network. I have a dedicated machine at home on which I've installed the squeezebox server software. I believe my radio is connected to my server, as one of the options under the advanced menu allows me to 'switch to mysqueezebox.com.' For the record, I've tried the Napster functionality while connected directly to MSB as well as to my local SBS. Either one gives me the same, inconsistent results. Am I out of luck? Is there any hope that the Napster plugin will ever work correctly? I'll be quite disappointed to find out that I bought this radio with no intent from Logitech to make the Napster integration reliable. Thanks in advance. -- dexter.metzger ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dexter.metzger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47581 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88335 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
