A few weeks ago we had two outages on mysqueezebox.com. That was more than we had in a long time before. Most likely just a coincidence. But it lead me to do some analysis of our infrastructure, its weaknesses and how we could improve. And this un-earthed a few issues.
We have supported using software players with LMS from the very early days. SoftSqueeze actually lead to hiring its author as the first SlimDevices employee overseas. Back then we considered it kind of a "try before you buy" for the actual Squeezebox. But with the end of the Squeezebox, the use of software players has become more and more important. They're being used as SB replacements as well as additions to existing installations or even totally new installations. Unfortunately a bug or two in mysqueezebox.com led all those software players to be registered in our databases. From what I understand (reading the code) we tried to prevent even registration of older Squeezebox models and the good, old SliMP3, because they couldn't connect to mysqueezebox.com anyway. Therefore these software player registrations are unwanted and unnecessary. Add to this the fact that too many users tried to be smart about faking MAC addresses, and using mysqueezebox.com in ways we can no longer accept. In short: registration of software players on mysb.com has become a problem. I'm therefore going to fix those loopholes. Alas those fixes won't go without some side-effects. Please expect some hiccups as I'm wading through potential solutions for these issues. I'll try my best to apply fair rules (after all I want to be able to run my Squeezeplay, too :-)). If you're running into any kind of issue using mysb.com based services, please let me know. It might be a temporary issue or not. Thanks for your understanding! -- Michael Michael http://www.herger.net/slim-plugins - MusicArtistInfo, MusicInfoSCR, Smart Mix ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mherger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=50 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105461 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezenetwork
