Dave (Northumberland);539479 Wrote: > After the descriptions of SBS I don't have a 'problem' with installing > it. I still don't have a wireless or wired network to connect it to the > Touch and really don't want to use one anyway. I waited for the Touch to > use as a stand alone player that I could just turn on and play on its > own. It does this just about but its a pain sometimes. It seems to be > happier now after I plugged the Ethernet in to re-set the clock. > > Bit disappointed with the jerky VU meters, they don't seem to track the > music fast enough. I think after 6 months of updates there may be a few > more advanced options so I can set it up the way I want, there are no > advanced digi out options etc at the moment and alternative > fonts/backgrounds for menus.
Well here is your main issue. Squeezeboxes are at the heart Network Media Players, the key point being "Network". While the Touch can operate without a network, that is not really the target usage. So you may run into little niggles do to using it outside its design. That said I believe a bug has been reported concerning the clock losing time, however the solution for that most likely will be to provide some form of "blinking 12:00" since like a VCR the Touch does not have the hardware to maintain time between power resets. The older squeezeboxes could not even maintain time without a network! They were sent time updates from the server. If they lost connection to the server they could no longer display the current time. The orignal SB design was a thin client, SqueezeOS on the newer devices is slowly evolving them to a thick client and in the case of the Touch a full server. Still growing pains on the Full Server part and that is rumored to be why the devices launch was delayed as much as it was to solve as many of those issues as possible. I am sure they are working hard to polish out those other little niggles. However if I were you I would look into trying to get a wifi network active just so the Touch can access mysqueezecenter. That would probably help solve some of your current issues without needing to setup full on SBS. As for the VU updates I have not tried them with the Touch running as the server so not sure how they look in that case. With them running attached to SBS the refresh I find to be pretty good, it could be smoother but I think that is more of an issue with the number of graduates it has the the refresh. Now it is possible that with the Touch acting as a server the devices refresh is slowed down and makes it jumpier. -- m1abrams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ m1abrams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=850 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77810 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
