Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-20 Thread Ted Cabeen
erland wrote: bflatmajor;249989 Wrote: and I was hoping for drag and drop within a playlist How about drag and drop from the left panel/screen into a playlist? Is that possible? Dragdrop within the current playlist works in both Fishbone and Default skin in 7.0, the classic skin(called

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-19 Thread Steve Baumgarten
d'n'd in Default currently is available for playlist (current saved) and favorites reordering. I'm curious about the state of playlist management generally in 7.0. Adding songs to an existing saved playlist is fairly tedious in 6.5, at least with Fishbone. I haven't experimented with 7.0 yet,

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-19 Thread Michael Herger
I'm curious about the state of playlist management generally in 7.0. Adding songs to an existing saved playlist is fairly tedious in 6.5, at least with Fishbone. I haven't experimented with 7.0 yet, but if playing with playlists has been improved (in any skin) That's still on the todo list

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-19 Thread Steve Baumgarten
(right now that's the thing they're least happy about, given that they otherwise love their Squeezebox). C'mon? Which other kid can call a SB his SB?!? They must be happy! Ok? :-) And it's SuperDateTime that sold them. They are lunatic sports fans and love getting the latest scores on the

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-19 Thread Michael Herger
The, how shall we say, kind of lousy support for fiddling around with playlists is, I'm convinced, another hallmark of a product designed by techies who mostly listen to albums. Let's call this group adult, not techies :-). I'm an album guy, because I believe that many albums are an entity,

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread utowana
Michael: happy to help if I can. I'm running a windows xp machine, service pack 2, 2.4 GHz, 512 RAM with a swap file size of 1536 MB. I've been running Webroot Spysweeper and NOD32 antivirus for several years now. Other than that, pretty vanilla. Belkin Pre-N wireless router has been running

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread Michael Herger
- initial scan was 2+ hours (1600+ albums, 20,000+ songs, 1,500+ artisits, 160GB of disk space on an internal hard drive) Is this slower than it was before? Are you using MusicIP or iTunes? When looking at the scanning status page, where's most of the time spent? - screen refresh was

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread Craig, James (IT)
- screen refresh was labored and delayed Player screen or web interface? Hi Michael, I've been meaning to say for a while, I find the new web interface incredibly slow. I'm running from SVN on Windows XP, Firefox 2. Firstly, It takes almost a minute to fully load. Secondly, I have observed

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread mflint
I've been running SC7 for some time now, and haven't noticed any speed differences between SC7 and SC6.5. That's not to say that there aren't speed differences - but in my experience any difference isn't significant enough to be noticed in every-day use. A complete rescan still takes a while,

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread peterw
Craig, James \(IT\);249801 Wrote: Hi Michael, I've been meaning to say for a while, I find the new web interface incredibly slow. I'm running from SVN on Windows XP, Firefox 2. Firstly, It takes almost a minute to fully load. Secondly, I have observed that if I open two tabs in

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread Craig, James (IT)
Firstly, It takes almost a minute to fully load. Are you running short on memory? What's the machine's specs? It's a 2Ghz P4 with 1Gb of memory. SqueezeCentre is running on the same machine. I think there is plenty of memory, about 600Mb in use normally. Firefox uses 100% CPU time. Switch to

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread Michael Herger
Another unrelated New Default comment: especially on short item names, there's a lot of blank horizontal space between item name and the small Add/Play/etc. icons. It's sometimes a hassle to mouseover the item and then slide right to the icon -- it's easiest to select an item by What probably

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread Michael Herger
Hi Michael, I've been meaning to say for a while, I find the new web interface incredibly slow. You're late in the game to expect major changes... Firstly, It takes almost a minute to fully load. Are you running short on memory? What's the machine's specs? Secondly, I have observed that if

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread psykoptic
Michael Herger;249814 Wrote: That's not something you should see (at least I don't). Do you have any FF extensions installed? Eg. Firebug is known to slow it down to a crawl (but I couldn't do without :-/). Michael me too Firebug can cause problems for certain sites, local or

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread erland
jmschnur;249929 Wrote: So what are the benefits of 7 over 6.4.5. A list of +/- would be very useful. Joel The changelog is here: http://svn.slimdevices.com/*checkout*/trunk/server/Changelog7.html At the moment, I can't really think of any negative things. I personally don't like all the

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread funkstar
Perhaps not what you are looking for, but this is the SqueezeCenter7 Spec document from the Wiki http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?SlimServer7Spec -- funkstar funkstar's Profile:

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread Ted Cabeen
erland wrote: At the moment, I can't really think of any negative things. I personally don't like all the skin changes in the classic skin and in the new default skin, but that's just a matter of taste because other people loves them. Overall I would still say that the skin changes is an

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread bflatmajor
and I was hoping for drag and drop within a playlist How about drag and drop from the left panel/screen into a playlist? Is that possible? I haven't played with 7.0 and I'm currently running the latest version 6.5.?? TIA -- bflatmajor

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread erland
bflatmajor;249989 Wrote: and I was hoping for drag and drop within a playlist How about drag and drop from the left panel/screen into a playlist? Is that possible? Dragdrop within the current playlist works in both Fishbone and Default skin in 7.0, the classic skin(called default in 6.5)

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-18 Thread Michael Herger
Agreed. I like the new default skin quite a lot. The only thing that it seems to be really missing is drag-and-drop playlist reordering. d'n'd in Default currently is available for playlist (current saved) and favorites reordering. ___ discuss

[slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-17 Thread Club1820
Was just wondering if all you early adapters would recommend upgrading to SC7 now as opposed to waiting for the official release? I am currently using 6.5.5 and am happy with it other than Sync problems (SB3 and Softsqueeze) which apparently this method is not improved with SC7. Although SB3 to

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-17 Thread Secret Squirrel
I went for it. It was really rather painless for me because I use just a few plug-ins, so downloading new version wasn't a big deal. BTW, I'm running XP Pro on a wired network. I do like the changes to the web interface I find things a bit quicker. I do think there's a slight improvement in the

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-17 Thread -Stef-
I am thinking of upgrading to SC7 myself as well. I am using version 6.5.1. at the moment without a problem but now some Live365 stations tell me to log in while I already am. The advice on this forum is to go to SC7. I hope I can switch to a nightly built without problems, because aside from

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-17 Thread utowana
Well, I was not going to post on this topic, but since it has been raised, I'll share my experience. This weekend past, I upgraded and the install and config was painless and nicely thought out. Immediately, I noticed a slowdown in performance that was tenfold. Endless searching, painfully

Re: [slim] Upgrade Now to SC7?

2007-12-17 Thread Michael Herger
I was not about to complain, as it is most certainly labeled Pre-releases are here to find problems before going final. It wouldn't have been a complaint, but (if correctly worded) a big help for us. If there really was an issue slowing down systems that much, then we're really interested