seanadams;211343 Wrote: 
> (spinning a new thread from
> http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=211286&postcount=45)
> 
> 
> 
> This is about the same as complaining that you can't "scratch" on a CD
> player the same way you could on last century's phonograph... except
> that in this case it is a bit less obvious why you can't. It's clear
> from the tone of your comment that you don't care why, you just want it
> to work. That's fine, you can stop reading here, but in case anyone else
> wants to know, I will explain.
> 
> Featuritis and stability and simply incompatible goals, and to make the
> assertion that ff/rw is an essential or trivial feature that must be
> implemented, while at the same time calling for software that just
> works, is not really constructive. Most of us have little or no need
> for scanning, and just because a CD player does it does not
> automatically mean it is a good idea to make Squeezebox do it.

Thank you for this great explanation! It's great to have some
understanding of how things are working in the background. My only
gripe is that *it says in the manual that it should work* - there is no
mention of it requiring special formats or anything else.


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