mherger wrote: > > I am running LMS on a really old (2005) Mac Mini. Amazingly, it seems > to > > run great and has been very reliable. One minor annoyance is that it > > prompts to update LMS right after you boot. But when you say, "OK" to > go > > ahead and update nothing happens. > > Head over to http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/index.php?ver=7.7 > > and grab the latest 7.7.6 build. One issue it fixes is the failing > update notification. Hopefully :-). > > > I think I am running LMS 7.7.2. The > > Mac Mini is running Mac OS 10.4. > > Is it Intel based or PowerPC? > > > Incidentally, this Mac Mini only has 512M of Ram. All Musc is stored > on > > an external USB drive. I was hoping to upgrade the internal hard disk > to > > a 256M SSD that I have laying around but the Mac HDD is the old ATA > > style interface! Guess my upgrade options are a bit limited in this > > case! > > If you're going to open up that box to install an SSD, don't forget to > add a few gigabytes of memory, too. The whole SSD advantage would be > lost due to lack of memory. > > > Anyway, I am not sure I care if I upgrade LMS since the version I > have > > now works OK. Is there any way I can get LMS to stop checking for an > > update? Alternatively, are there any compelling reasons t update LMS? > > Never touch a running system... check Settings/Advanced/Software > updates. Make sure it's all turned off. Then stop LMS. Go to > ~/Library/Caches/Squeezebox and delete the Updates sub-folder. That > should take care of the update notification. > > But yes, there are good reasons to update. But they probably don't apply > > to you: > > - if you're using Spotify and/or Napster/Rhapsody, then you should > update, as we had to fix a few issues there > > - LMS 7.9 has a few nice improvements like virtual libraries (library > views), playing files without scanning them first, new browse modes, > performance improvements (would require a bit more memory than you have > > :-)) > > Check out http://goo.gl/zfz2sn for yourself. It's up to you whether any > > of those changes are worth the potential hassle of an update. > > > -- > > Michael
Thanks so much for the quick reply. It is a PowerPC model. One interesting thing, it has an ATA interface. So I would need an ATA to SATA adapter to install the SSD. I've done these kinds of upgrades before - iFixit.com is just amazing on the upgrade instructions to do stuff like this. I have an SSD sitting around currently unused. Not so worried about speed - but I'd like to stuff the Mac mini in a little wiring closet area and it would be easier not to have the external USB hanging off the box. The USB disk is bus powered so at least I don't need an additional power supply. It is amazing how reliable these old Macs are. I always use the Mac with hard wired Ethernet. I wired my whole house with Cat5E Ethernet. My squeezeboxes (I have 3) are all hard wired Ethernet too. Rock solid reliable. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ HokieKev's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=65486 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105288 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
