As a new user I'm afraid I would have to second jimyyz's rant. I'm a network admin by profession so I'm no stranger to complexity or scanty documentation. I appreciate and applaud SlimDevices' striving for extensibility, open source development and cross platform deployment.
That said -- as things stand, this is a music platform for geeks and only for geeks. No one else would ever have the patience to wade through the learning curve that this music platform entails. I was hoping to be able to give a Squeezebox or two for Xmas to non-technical users like my folks, but after living with it myself for a few weeks now, I don't think that would fly at all:\ If I owned Slim or Logitech and wanted to up my sales dramatically, I would look to Tivo as a model for the interface's "first level," then hide all the other complexity underneath. Here's one of my pet peeves as an example: I should be able to save an internet "radio station" to one, single favorites file -- no matter how it was accessed. Like, by pressing the stupid but effective "Thumbs Up" button on a Tivo. If it's from a subscription service or not, it shouldn't matter. Now, when I save a (subscription only) Live365 stream as a favorite, SlimServer is unable to save my subscription token along with the URL of the stream -- so when I attempt to play the favorite, I only get a Live365 recording that says, "Subscription required to listen to this station." The only way I can save the stream as a favorite is if I save it as a favorite _within Live365_. Grrr! -- johnny66 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ johnny66's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12997 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38090 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
