I have had my Touch since April, I had only heard about Squeezebox products before that and until the Touch had never seriously thought about getting one. So 0 experience with Squeezebox Server, 0 knowledge of all the little tweaks and stuff coming in. I only discovered these forums after I had ordered and wanted to have a little knowledge about set-up. Since April when it came, I've maybe had a few minor issues, usually solved pretty quickly, but 99.9% of the time it's listening to music not fiddeling around with stuff. I am not an adventurous type, so I stick with the latest "official" firmware, and only have a few plug-ins, and I have a library of Apple Lossless files at over 49,000 with some 96/24 thrown in for good measure (thanks Tom Petty & Paul McCartney).
So while if you want to tweak around with it all the time, you certainly can, but you don't have to. For me some of the plug-ins just seemed to me at least, since I'm not a fiddeler, need constant tweaking so I've stayed pretty simple with my set-up. Now I've only got one wireless hop and that's only when I use my desktop as the server, with the laptop it's wired, so no network issues. In a nutshell, if you WANT to tweak every little thing (and there's nothing wrong with that) you CAN, if you DON'T WANT to mess with that stuff, trust me it works like that too. That is with the disclaimer of having a robust network, without too much interferance or wired, and not using an under powered NAS or old computer that can't handle the load, which would slow down scans and maybe hamper certain plugins. But I hardly have to do anything which is how I like it, but if I want to someday then I can which is an advantage over a closed system like the Sonos. Sorry if that went on too long..... -- rayman1701 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rayman1701's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41326 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84267 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
