Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Before I take my SB radio back for a refund....
Yes, the big letter is there but how does that help me scroll quickly? Thanks -- pqpq pqpq's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=52280 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93305 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Before I take my SB radio back for a refund....
Thanks Triode, will give that a go. Slate - no, not 10,000 CDs, it's around half that I guess but I have a lot of compilation albums which bumps up the artist number quite a bit. For some reason it's especially bad with latin stuff - however much you have the same artist almost never crops up twice. I don't find it too bad just looking using the first letter with the keypad on the remote, and I also have a smart search app which makes it much quicker. It's a whole lot better than it used to be when I had to find the actual disc -- pqpq pqpq's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=52280 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93305 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Before I take my SB radio back for a refund....
Thanks all. Some of this I don't understand - will have to do some more investigating. I really don't want to go down the remote control/smartphone route - the whole point of the radio is that it's a convenient stand-alone unit which is easy to control direct from the controls on the unit. So is there really no way to at least skip to a particular letter using the controls on the radio? I can't find anything which will do it. With almost 4000 artists on my database, even getting to the end of the As takes a while... This is a bit of a deal breaker, so if I can't sort this out the radio will probably go back. Cheers. -- pqpq pqpq's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=52280 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93305 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
[SlimDevices: Radio] Before I take my SB radio back for a refund....
I bought a Squeezebox Radio for my other half's birthday last week, and while it does everything I hoped it would, it's proving so user unfriendly that I know she won't use it. Before I take it back for a refund, maybe there's stuff I could do to improve things. So the problems are: The main attraction of the Radio is using the BBC's listen again service, so I installed the Applet. It is installed but I can't find it anywhere to actually use it. If I do a manual search for BBC Radio, there are some old programmes showing up, so maybe that's it, but the search is so clunky that as it stands, the listen again won't get used. I have a vast CD collection ripped to a NAS drive, which works fine on the SB attached to my hi-fi. On the SB radio, the search function is so difficult to use (using the wheel to type in the search term) that it won't get used. It means that everything takes too long to find to be worth the bother, unless the artist/album/whatever start with an "A". I put some of her favourite radio stations in favourites, but they were wiped as soon as she switched it off - back to clunky searching again. The favourites is now full of apparently random music tracks neither of us have ever played. I've now tried the preset thing - let's see if that stays put. Favourites it seems don't really work. So all of this means that so far it's only been used for live radio broadcasts - but given what she likes to listen to, a DAB radio would do that job much better than a squeezebox does because it doen't rely on a wi-fi signal. So can I sort these problems out or should get a refund? Thanks -- pqpq pqpq's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=52280 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93305 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
