Hi there, I recently purchased a squeezebox duet and use it in conjunciton with my ready NAS. It seemed like the ideal situation and whilst it does work there are a few grievances, which I thought I would share and see what peoples thoughts are...
1.The method to create playlists has got to be the worst I have ever seen. Using the controller is very hard and the squeezecentre is absolutly rubbish. What have other people been doing? This infact has put me off using the kit quite alot and would probably stop me from recommending it. 2. Using the controller itself is rather good (the buttons are wellpoistioned etc), and easy to get to grips with, however, scrolling down a huge list is extreamly tiresome, i have a big library and getting to a band/song is painful. Surely theres an easier way? Perhaps when doing a "fast spin" the alphabet appears so you can quickly get to a letter? 3. The interface is just about adequate (i believe it was alot worse in the past) however it just doesnt cut it when compared other interfaces that are out these days. I would like to know if other people find it slow and sometimes unresponsive??Just navigating between menus seems to be effort for the device when infact I was expecting it to be slick and efficient. At first I thought it was becuase im using it wirelssly - but the connection is good, and I experience the same when wired. Then i thought perhaps its becuase my library is big(around 150Gb - which i think is big but may not be) so it was constantly looking "through it"...but then I thought thats the job of the scan process, to make browsing through my music quick and painless?? 4. This really is a continuation of 2 and 3 but has anyone else experienced getting in a loop when trying to scroll through your list of music, e.g. it gets to the end of all the artists in L and rather then going to M it starts back at L? ITs a pain in the arsea and usually happens when trying to scroll quickly The interface should be slick, quick and effortloss. At the moment it is slow and painful. I do really like the idea of the device but in practice the things listed above really annoy me and let the device down, what do other people think? I believe if the squeezebox team put abit of effort into polishing the GUI and the general working of the device it would easily be the best out there and would be well worth recommending. Until then I have to admit I am rather dissapointed. Peace BoB -- bob_mcbob ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bob_mcbob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=43935 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85580 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
