[slim] Aaargh - no documentation! How do I...
I'm a squeezebox owner, and reasonably happy with it. However, any time I want to change anything, I end up pulling my hair out searching the slimdevices site, the wiki, the help file the bug list, and Google for any fragments or clues about stuff that ought to be obvious. If anyone can point me to any of the following, I'll be grateful. And if I've just been blind and missed an obvious source of information, my appologies. As an I side, I did submit a documentation bug (#1720) five months ago - it's still pending I believe. Here are some things I'd like to know and can't seem to find: Slimserver: What is the most recent, stable release of Slimserver? Or just the most recent release? How do I find out what version I have? (Why isnt the version number in Help/About like in every other software package?) How do I update to the new version (uninstall first, or just install over the top of my current?) How do I get it to run as a service? Slimserver Skins Where can I find a list of the skins available for Slimserver? How can I find out whether a skin has changed since I installed it? How do I know which version of a skin I have? Where can I download them? (I know I tried a bunch of them once now I cant find them) How do I install them? Squeezebox What is the most recent version of the firmware for my Squeezebox? Where is the firmware version history? How do I find out what version I have installed? How do I know which version I should have given my version of Slimserver? How do I update to the new version? Thanks, J -- jhd jhd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2235 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18057 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Aaargh - no documentation! How do I...
>There is lots of documentation installed as part of the >slimserver itself. Not the most organized, but there is a lot. Indeed there is. But the vast majority of it is either documentation for the Squeezebox, or information of interest only to developers - neither useful nor even intelligible to a person who just wants to get Slimserver installed and listen to some music. There is almost nothing about installing and configuring slimserver itself. The "Getting Started" page is a great example: It thanks you for buying a Squeezebox. Tells you how to connect it to your stereo, how to connect to your network, even spends a paragraph describing how to plug it in. Gives a blow by blow of network setup. But it barely mentions the "Squeezebox Server Computer" - not a word on what that is, or what to do if you don't happen to have one awaiting the arrival of your new Squeezebox. > How do I find out what version I have? (Why isnt the version >number in Help/About like in every other software package?) >... because most people talk to the slimserver through a >browser. So if you click on help-> about you are much more >likely to get the version of IE or Firefox or Mozilla or >whatver browser you are using, and you want the version of the >server. You don't really mean that. If you believe your user is unable to distinguish between help for the browser and help for Slimserver, then why have the help link on the default screen in the first place? J -- jhd jhd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2235 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18057 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Aaargh - no documentation! How do I...
I think it might be helpful in making it easy to tell whether this great piece of software has a reasonable level of USER documentation if someone did the following: Go through all of the existing help and documentation pages, and split them into two groups: Documentation for developers (including skin creators, people who want to talk to the command line or XML interfaces, etc. etc.), and documentation for users. I think it might surprise you how little would remain in the latter section, particularly if you distinguish between the (relatively richly documented) squeezebox and Slimserver. Best, J -- jhd jhd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2235 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18057 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] iPeng 1.2 for iPhone now on the AppStore
This is a very, very well crafted piece of software. To the point that buying a gen 1 iPhone on eBay to use for nothing but a SB remote with iPeng is a perfectly sensible thing to do. Well done, Pippin! -- jhd jhd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2235 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68698 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] user experience with 7.3.3 = worst
Is it possible to give an SB1 a static IP? If so, how? -- jhd jhd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2235 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65021 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Best of Luck - moving on...
I've been teetering on the edge of doing the same thing for some time now. I used to use "bleeding edge" versions of Squeezecenter hoping they would fix my problems, which they sometimes did, but they seemed to introduce as many new ones. Recently I've stayed only with stable releases, and just tolerated the maintenance workload. There's much to love about the Squeeze system. But despite that I've refrained from buying it for my family or recommending it to friends, because I just don't want to have to supply the effort needed to keep it running. Although it seems minor, the issue that's about to break this camel's back is that I really love Pandora, and *no* version of the software (even with complete uninstall and deleting every relevant registry key) will restore the Pandora "thumbs up/down" functionality that evaporated some time back. It plays fine, but without the ability to train it, it's just another random jukebox. I just get the classic finger-pointing routine between Logitech and Pandora, and queries on the developer forums go unanswered. Nobody seems to have the time or motivation to go figure out why the functionality disappeared and stayed gone for some users but not all. It's a shame - this thing really has fantastic potential, and I've been hopeful for a long time that it would solidify into a category-killer. It's a catch-22 for Logitech I'm sure -- the sales doubtless don't justify a huge software team, and so SC just seems to be chronically underresourced. But to really make it take off, they'd have to resource getting it to a state where my mom could get it to work (my consumer-electronics ease of use litmus-test). The open-source approach was an innovative way to tackle this conundrum, but I'm not sure the experiment has been a success. I wish it had. - J -- jhd jhd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2235 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67040 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
