So I decided to drink the Kool-Aid and tried Moose. I guess the thing that was holding me back was .NET. Last time I installed it, it was pretty obnoxious, adding a user, lengthening boot-up time, etc. So I armed myself with a complete system and registry backup and found relevant web pages for automatic logon.
.NET 2.0 is a huge improvement. No impact on boot-up times and no annoying 'ASP .NET' user. And Moose? Wow! What a cool app! Fast, efficient, clean, uncluttered UI, bug-free. Up and running in two minutes flat. At first I thought "seeing as I still have to run SlimServer, why try Moose?" but I realize that Firefox with the SlimServer interface loaded takes up 23 MB, Moose takes up 10 MB - so SS + Moose is lighter. Rescan is FAST! 1900 tracks in 2 seconds! Whoa! I thought I missed something and rescanned again, which barely blinked up on the screen. I have a few minor niggles: 1. Stop does not work. Pause does, but pressing the Stop button on the bottom right has no effect. 2. Changing players is not as intuitive or simple as other operations. I guess this has to be done by the radio button in preferences? Personally I'd prefer a simple button somewhere in the main UI. Something that would call up a drop-down list. 3. I couldn't get the external tagger to work (Mp3tag). It errored out with a German dialog. I've seen this issue mentioned before, I just have to look for the solution. 4. It waits a fairly long time for the server response when starting up. 10-15 seconds. No big deal, but I thought there was a problem when I first started it. I haven't experienced any problems others have experienced like flickering when dragging or excessive processor usage. Dr Lovegrove, thank you so much for this fantastic app! -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21676 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
