Hi all!
I just received my Squeezebox yesterday, and so far I love it!
First of all a bit about my configuration:
SlimServer 6.0a 2005-02-25, generic tarball server machine: Dual 1.6 GHz Athlon MP, 1 GB RAM The Squeezebox is bridged into my WLAN via an AirPort Express :)
Music playback works flawlessly and the quality is well above my expectations even over analog, however I've run into a few useability glitches:
1) The daytime screensaver does not work all that well. The seconds get updated in irregular intervals of 2-4 seconds only, sometimes it goes a second backwards even.
2a) The way the text input for the search (via remote) works seems a little strange to me.
Sometimes I press (example) the ABC key once, and before I can press it a second time the A gets accepted, it moves to the next char and my second press (which should have made the A into a B) spawns a B or two after the A. I tried changing the Text Entry Timing - it did not affect that problem. Essentially the system behaves as if the timeout was zero in these cases. Tends to happen from third letter onwards - maybe the timeout counts total entry time instead of entry time for current letter by mistake?
2b) When the jump-to-next-letter timeout kicks in the cursor will move one position to the right and display "=>'. If I now press the same letter key on the remote again it is overwritten, as it should be. (i. e. M - timeout - O - timeout - N gives [MON]) When the key I press is not identical to the one pressed before the timeout the arrow stays intact and the letter will be put after it. (M - timeout - A gives [M=>D], thus putting an arrow in the middle of the search string. Pressing M - A works of course if there is no timeout, but the SlimServer seems to throw these in at random. These two issues combined make sure I can't type 5 letters without doubling back, much less "blind". I use this kind of text input a lot on my cell - would be great if it worked.
3) When I press and hold one of the volume keys on the remote the display will flicker back and forth between the volume bar and whatever was there before (e. g. now playing)
Seems to me some kind of timing is royally screwed up here. Just for testing I tried the Windows server on my workstation - no problems in 6.x or 5.4. Then I downgraded to 5.4 on linux - problems persist. So it's either something on the linux machine (too fast, too slow, bug in my perl version) or in the linux version of SlimServer.
4) On an unrelated note: I have a lot of Japanese tracks tagged in Japanese. (in whatever flavour of unicode foobar2000 uses for ID3v2) The tags display on the 6.0 server (nice!) but not on the Squeezebox, which was to be expected. Are there any Japanese font hacks? Failing that any hack that would allow the Squeezebox to use something in the vein of ALBUM_TRANSCRIBED, TITLE_TRANSCRIBED if the original tags can't be rendered? I need the romanized version anyway, for generating file and folder names.
Sorry this post got so long, I hope you're still with me. I'll go poke the source for a bit now, but I don't know much perl :) Any comments, tips and pointers appreciated.
C.
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