I've heavily used several Squeezeboxes and Boom Boxes for years, but I'm ready to throw them all in the trash.
I just wasted several hours in an unsuccessful attempt to get squeezeboxserver (or logitechmediaserver, or slimserver, or whatever it's called this week) running again on a Debian Jesse system after an apt-get upgrade broke it. I've lost track of how many times in the past my server has abruptly stopped working after I've updated some obscure library or piece of Perl on my system, and I've had to dig into the code to find out why. Users shouldn't have to be skilled programmers just to play the music in their libraries. The Squeezebox hardware is nicely designed, but it is quite frankly useless without reliable software to drive it. Perl was designed to crunch Linux system logs and generate reports, which it barely does. It's far too fragile a foundation on which to build a huge application like a music storage and retrieval system with thousands of gratuitous bells and whistles. It's also extremely slow even on fast modern hardware. Has anyone considered a simple server to drive Squeezebox hardware as a bare-bones network audio output device? I suspect I'm like most people in that I control my player from my computer, not the Squeezebox's own display and IR remote, so much of the software functionality just isn't necessary. It doesn't really need to do anything but accept a raw audio stream from a player like VLC or iTunes, possibly transcode it, and ship it over the network to the player. --Phil _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
