I bought a Squeezebox Radio for my other half's birthday last week, and while it does everything I hoped it would, it's proving so user unfriendly that I know she won't use it. Before I take it back for a refund, maybe there's stuff I could do to improve things.
So the problems are: The main attraction of the Radio is using the BBC's listen again service, so I installed the Applet. It is installed but I can't find it anywhere to actually use it. If I do a manual search for BBC Radio, there are some old programmes showing up, so maybe that's it, but the search is so clunky that as it stands, the listen again won't get used. I have a vast CD collection ripped to a NAS drive, which works fine on the SB attached to my hi-fi. On the SB radio, the search function is so difficult to use (using the wheel to type in the search term) that it won't get used. It means that everything takes too long to find to be worth the bother, unless the artist/album/whatever start with an "A". I put some of her favourite radio stations in favourites, but they were wiped as soon as she switched it off - back to clunky searching again. The favourites is now full of apparently random music tracks neither of us have ever played. I've now tried the preset thing - let's see if that stays put. Favourites it seems don't really work. So all of this means that so far it's only been used for live radio broadcasts - but given what she likes to listen to, a DAB radio would do that job much better than a squeezebox does because it doen't rely on a wi-fi signal. So can I sort these problems out or should get a refund? Thanks -- pqpq ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pqpq's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=52280 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93305 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
