Fastnbulbous wrote: > I very much appreciate all the help by the way. I use McAfee security > center. Disabling it did nothing, so still stuck. > > Also, it's interesting to hear the Sonos isn't up to snuff. Aside from > no longer offering controls, what particular features are missing?
Sonos is fine. I don't mean to demean it. Just not up to Squeezebox/LMS standards. Other than the 65,000 file limitation (or less if you use lots of tagging), which is a problem for me but not most people, I notice the following: 1. challenging to do random play, and certainly not with the custom features that some of the LMS plugins add. 2. Won't play > 16/44.1 (and won't automatically transcode on the fly to play hi-res files). I don't have that many hires files so this is not a big issue for me. 3. No podcast app that will allow subscribed podcasts to automatically populate with the N most recent episodes. 4. Doesn't like many of the tags I use on my flac files. 5. If album art is too large, it won't show it. 6. Awkward, partial implementation of replaygain (and certainly nothing like LMS "smartgain". 7. Nothing that works for me as a bedside radio (I like my Boom at bedside. I can control it from the front panel, I can set it to auto turn off after x minutes with a few presses of a button, etc. One could sort of do all this with a sonos but would need to pull out the smart phone, set a bunch of things, etc. rather than a couple of presses on the control panel. 8. Because one can't do plugins and apps, 3rd party developers don't exist in the Sonos world. So lots of the cool things LMS has are not possible. Consider the BBC streaming method change fiasco of last year. Smart folks around here figured out a way very quickly to restore ability to stream BBC channels via a plugin. It took SONOS many months to get a fix ready. And I suspect when the DASH method becomes the only method, it will take SONOS many months to figure that out. Squeezeboxes already have a fix for that in place due to smart, helpful users. and I'm probably forgetting a few other things. None of the above are deal breakers for the typical streaming music consumer, thus the popularity of SONOS is not that surprising. Ultimately it's like BetaMax vs VHS. BetaMax was a lot better technology, but VHS won out and BetaMax died. Squeezebox was way ahead of its time and still better than any commercial product for streaming (try using DLNA/UpNP approach to streaming and the disaster that "standard" turned out to be.....it's even worse than going back to a Model-T!). *Home:* VortexBox 4TB (2.3) > LMS 7.8 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* VBA 3TB (2.3) > LMS 7.8 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Office:* Win8(64) > LMS 7.9 > Squeezelite *Spares:* Touch(3), Radio(3), Boom, SB3, CONTROLLER *Controllers:* iPhone6 & iPadAir2 (iPeng8 & Squeezepad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.8 on Win7(64) laptop *Files:* ripping: dbpoweramp > FLAC; post-rip: mp3tag, PerfectTunes; Streaming: Spotify ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104310 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
