Just to clarify - the original poster complained about stability. I said that stability was poor and upgrading to new releases was a pain because they were often broken and required a rescan, which was slow. I can live with slow rescanning if you only have to do it once. The current way of adding music is very klunky. (Rescan or manually browse through a poor web interface).
I do think that it is possible to provide a music server that does not require seriously powerful hardware. No, I am not going to build it myself (I am a customer here) - I have too much else to do. I know how to do it but I really do not want to - I want to buy something that is easy to use. I am merely trying to voice an opinion that Slimdevices may want to consider that some of their customers consider their software server to be the weakest link by a very long way. I personally do not like the idea that a music server that is streaming a single stream (I know some people here have many devices, but the majority must surely only have one). I personally would like to see a modular architecture that allowed plugins for the functionality some people want. I really think that Slimdevices need to seriously assess what market they are aiming at. Either hackers or consumers (I have moved camps over the years). This really is a personal view - I am not here to argue with the vocal devotees. I really respect the point of view of wanting to squeeze in as much extra functionality and pure "gee wow" stuff as possible. I just think that there are probably a number of people like me who normally stay silent on this board (I have been reading these fora since they started). Up until very recently I have been very happy, almost evangelical (and not posted), but the standard of recent releases and the direction of the server (increased functionality/bloat whatever people choose to call it) has left me very disillusioned. Let me reiterate, my main use of the server is to stream one stream of MP3 to a single player. That really must be what most users do and what most want. It should be simple and reliable, with added functionality secondary to that primary functionality. (By the way, that probably is a bit of a rant to be fair :-) ). Cheers, Andy -- forestcaver ------------------------------------------------------------------------ forestcaver's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3550 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35492 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
