Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Reinstalled 7.5.5 but now SBS insists on 7.6

2011-07-30 Thread bulletmark
castalla;644386 Wrote: Yes but offering an update to a version to that below the server is not normal, is it? This problem has plagued me for ages and have just come to these forums looking for information to find this comment. My squeezeboxserver is current debian-testing which is 7.5.6.

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Reinstalled 7.5.5 but now SBS insists on 7.6

2011-07-30 Thread toby10
bulletmark;645168 Wrote: . How can I get around this cycle? My sb never used to do this. This problem has been introduced only in the last 18 months or so. You can't. If your SBS server version is not the same as the MySB server version then you will always be prompted to

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Reinstalled 7.5.5 but now SBS insists on 7.6

2011-07-30 Thread bulletmark
toby10;645198 Wrote: The only way to avoid this is to not switch servers or update your SBS to the same version as MySB, currently 7.6 Well you've pointed me to the problem. I am running squeezeboxserver on ubuntu using the debian testing apt source which is 7.5.6~32834. I just checked and

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Reinstalled 7.5.5 but now SBS insists on 7.6

2011-07-29 Thread steveb
Since doing the 7.6 update, the SBT doesn't recognise the server (no IP addr) when wired ethernet. With wireless, it can't find DHCP. I wish I had the missing artwork problem, I now have nothing Done Factory Reset (after rebooting router which did nothing) What should I try next, get on to

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Reinstalled 7.5.5 but now SBS insists on 7.6

2011-07-29 Thread toby10
steveb;644802 Wrote: Since doing the 7.6 update, the SBT doesn't recognise the server (no IP addr) when wired ethernet. With wireless, it can't find DHCP. I wish I had the missing artwork problem, I now have nothing Done Factory Reset (after rebooting router which did nothing) What

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Reinstalled 7.5.5 but now SBS insists on 7.6

2011-07-28 Thread Cut-Throat
Having been in the software business for 30 years, I learned never to install an upgrade 'just because it was there'. You upgrade software to 'get something' you want. And you are willing to take the risk of upgrading, because you want that 'something' badly enough. -- Cut-Throat

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Reinstalled 7.5.5 but now SBS insists on 7.6

2011-07-28 Thread castalla
What an utterly unhelpful and pointless comment! -- castalla castalla's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15624 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89103

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Reinstalled 7.5.5 but now SBS insists on 7.6

2011-07-28 Thread castalla
'If you have the time, it would be great if you could post about these problems also in the official support forum, so the Logitech support staff gets aware of it and doesn't recommend all users to downgrade to 7.5.5 so they will get these issues instead. The official support forum can be found

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Reinstalled 7.5.5 but now SBS insists on 7.6

2011-07-28 Thread Audiofile
I did report it there and the response was: 1.) don't use both MySB and SBS, or 2.) live with having to reinstall teh software each time you make the switch. Ridiculous. -- Audiofile Audiofile's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Reinstalled 7.5.5 but now SBS insists on 7.6

2011-07-28 Thread Cut-Throat
castalla;644330 Wrote: What an utterly unhelpful and pointless comment! Only unhelpful and pointless, if you don't learn this lesson from your experience. -- Cut-Throat Cut-Throat's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Reinstalled 7.5.5 but now SBS insists on 7.6

2011-07-28 Thread Audiofile
aubuti;644370 Wrote: And the 3rd valid alternative is the one that erland offered earlier in this thread: refuse the offer to up/downgrade. 7.6.0 has a lot of problems, no question about it. But this particular question of matching player firmware to the server software has been standard

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Reinstalled 7.5.5 but now SBS insists on 7.6

2011-07-28 Thread castalla
'But this particular question of matching player firmware to the server software has been standard practice since forever.' Yes but offering an update to a version to that below the server is not normal, is it? I have 7.6 and I get update available to 7.5.4 -- castalla

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Reinstalled 7.5.5 but now SBS insists on 7.6

2011-07-28 Thread aubuti
castalla;644386 Wrote: Yes but offering an update to a version to that below the server is not normal, is it? No, it's not. But I was responding to the OP, whose problem is different from yours. -- aubuti aubuti's

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Reinstalled 7.5.5 but now SBS insists on 7.6

2011-07-28 Thread erland
castalla;644386 Wrote: Yes but offering an update to a version to that below the server is not normal, is it? I have 7.6 and I get update available to 7.5.4 Are you using the official 7.6.0 release or a nightly 7.6.1 build ? If you are using the nightly 7.6.1 build that could be

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Reinstalled 7.5.5 but now SBS insists on 7.6

2011-07-28 Thread castalla
thanks! I'll check fighting with a linux problem at the moment! Computers, eh???!!! -- castalla castalla's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15624 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Reinstalled 7.5.5 but now SBS insists on 7.6

2011-07-28 Thread aubuti
Audiofile;644385 Wrote: But doesn't listening to internet radio through SBS require that the computer be on at all times? With MySB.com, it was just my router that needed to be on. Listening to internet radio via SBS doesn't require the computer to be on at all times -- only all the times

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Reinstalled 7.5.5 but now SBS insists on 7.6

2011-07-28 Thread castalla
Clearing the cache seems to have stopped the reminders ... thanks. I am using the nightly build - I'll leave well alone now until the dust settles! -- castalla castalla's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Reinstalled 7.5.5 but now SBS insists on 7.6

2011-07-28 Thread Audiofile
Cut-Throat;644326 Wrote: Having been in the software business for 30 years, I learned never to install an upgrade 'just because it was there'. You upgrade software to 'get something' you want. And you are willing to take the risk of upgrading, because you want that 'something' badly

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Reinstalled 7.5.5 but now SBS insists on 7.6

2011-07-28 Thread Cut-Throat
Audiofile;644412 Wrote: I think the responsible thing to have done here was to issue 7.6 as a beta if at all with attendant risks of harm (e.g. glitches and permanent incompatibility with MySB.com) rather than prompting the user to upgrade without such a warning. I am happy to decide to

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Reinstalled 7.5.5 but now SBS insists on 7.6

2011-07-28 Thread aubuti
Cut-Throat;644457 Wrote: Agree, that the responsible thing was to offer a Beta Version. For those who may not already be aware, 7.6.0 has been offered as a beta version for well over a year, with nightly updates that are publicly available for users to download, test, use, delete, report bugs,

[SlimDevices: Touch] Reinstalled 7.5.5 but now SBS insists on 7.6

2011-07-27 Thread Audiofile
Intalled server 7.6, but then couldn't access music on server. Uninstalled and reinstalled 7.5.5. Problem is now when in MSB mode, MSB insists on upgrade to 7.6. MSB works once MSB is upgraded. But then server cannot be accessed and insists on upgrade to 7.5.4 which will work once done. To

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Reinstalled 7.5.5 but now SBS insists on 7.6

2011-07-27 Thread erland
Audiofile;644115 Wrote: Intalled server 7.6, but then couldn't access music on server. Uninstalled and reinstalled 7.5.5. Problem is now when in MSB mode, MSB insists on upgrade to 7.6. MSB works once MSB is upgraded. But then server cannot be accessed and insists on upgrade to 7.5.4