P Nelson wrote: > Choose the headache is right! > > 1) TinyLMS reliability headache, and when it does not work the wife > complains, which expands the headache. I must be insane to try this. > It is like a train wreck, you know you should not watch, but you cannot > help it. I don't use plugins and I don't need to transcode media > files, so tinyLMS when it works has been fine. > > 2) Wife complains about having to turn on the windows machine to listen > to our music, and then have to switch (on the Touch or Radios) the > servers from MySB to ours. > > 3) The linux stuff kinda scares me. The linux line codes seems like a > foreign language. I am familiar with windows to fix many problems, and > if it breaks beyond my ability I can take it to the local computer store > to fix. What happens if the vortexbox, squeezeplug, etc stops working? > After exhausting help from these forums I have no place to go. I tried > the ssh logging into the Touch using descriptions from the forums and > was unsuccessful. Documentation for the referenced shareware > applications assumed a more advanced knowledge to use the software. > What is obvious to the expert, it not very clear to the newbie. > > I like to listen to music, but I get little enjoyment of tinkering with > the computer side. I don't mind some computer tinkering to get it to > work, but then I want to be done with it. I think this is one of the > reasons that contributed to Logitech droping the squeezebox line.
I know nothing about linux. That doesn't seem to get in the way of me using the Vortebox servers. They are designed to be mostly used via WebGUI that is dumbed down for any user. If something breaks, that's a different story, but for setup and day to day use, it was plug and play for me. I can (fortunately) say that I have effectively no headaches with my setup. It simply runs, day in, day out, month after month. The only time my VB server is turned off or rebooted is when I do an update via the WebGUI. My wife is addicted to various internet radio stations (and SirusXM stations) in the morning and on return from work. Plus she wants to play any of our albums easily (about 70,000 tracks). So if things took a lot of fixing, I'd be in trouble. Instead, when she gets up she picks the CONTROLLER out of the cradle, scrolls to FAVORITES and selects a station. The preamp/amp is set for autosensing, so everything turns on automatically and she only worries about the station (and volume), all of which she does from the Controller. And if she wants music, she just scrolls to "my music" finds the artist/album and plays that (she does complain that it was easier to "find" songs when just looking for the CD on the shelve). When she wants things off, she simply hits the "pause" button on the controller and it is OFF (from her perspective). All very easy (thankfully, because I travel a lot and may be gone for a week at a time). To be fair, I do have VB Server and all SB players wired so I don't have WIFI issues (only controller and ithings are wireless). But at my old house it was mostly WIFI connected and things worked well then too. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98291 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
