Hello, I live in the Netherlands and love last.fm.
I had a real difficult time to get myself learning the SBD to: 1. how I have/want my network configured 2. get last.fm working. I only managed to get last.fm working via the webui while using squeezescrobbler. This 'wonderfull' SBC is only usefull to forward the next song and send 'loves' to last.fm. And it still doesn't work always. Many times last.fm just stops and I have to walk to my pc and restart via the webui . Oh, forget to mention, I am a paid customer of last.fm. Yesterday arrived my next package: a SB3. I was flabbergasted. It worked OUT OF THE BOX: It recognized my network on instant and it was completely obvious to me how to explain the SB3 to use wireless/ethernet/dhcp/static and the SB3 was LISTENING where the SBD absolutely didn't WANT to listen to my orders. The SBD even disobeyed to use the static ip's I gave it manually. I was even more flabbergasted to find out the SB3 used squeezescrobbler on the device itself, no webui, just the device itself gives me entrance to last.fm. Oh, I don't live in USA/UK/DE ! Am I just a lucky guy on a lucky moment with a lucky device ? Or is it a general rule that non-USA/UK/DE last.fm lovers get serviced with an old device (SB3) while they are not serviced with a double priced product (SBD) ? Okay I know if you are lucky, don't push it over the limits. But finally I wanted to know if the SB3 and the SBD would like each other, so I tried to use them together. Oh, I didn't synchronize, I just powered the SBD ..... and instantly last.fm stopped playing on the SB3. I couldn't believe my ears, this is a joke. I tested and tested over again. But it's true the SB3 stops playing last.fm the moment SBD is connected. Okay I thought let's push it over the limits and get the two synchronize: wrong thought. Now not only does last.fm stop on SB3, on SBD last.fm only plays the first 5 seconds of every song and jumps to the next song to play it 5 seconds. Don't get me wrong, but it really looks like someone is trying to do us evil here. I learned one lesson and like to pass it to all non-USA/UK/DE last.fm lovers: Buy yourself only half-priced SB3 and leave the SBD where it is till slimdevices guarantee you last.fm will work on it. Oh and buy the way: the IR-control works much better then the SBC and you don't have to bother batterylife eather. And if you can't do without the artwork, buy yourself a eee-pc instead of the SBC, it is cheaper, prettier, more reliable, better battery-life, and you can browse while listening on your sofa ;) So that was only my 2 cents. And oh: I love squeezebox and I ADORE last.fm ! Gr, Rik -- rvanderh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rvanderh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18876 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50235 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
