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Squeeze Box Love'n'hate

I tellya, had I known this thing would be such a pain in the backside.....but yet I love it....when it works!!! Perhaps it's because I'm a MAC guy and my computers just work. This 'interactivity' with the SQ3 goes beyond my extent of how much I want to be involved with digital. I'm also a vinyl guy and I have no trouble with the interactiveness of playing records....in fact I savour it!

So what is it with the SQ3? Well sometimes it's busy 'buffering' when I want to listen to music. Other times it just shuts itself off. And then there's the times when it won't shut off.....unless you unplug it. And at times it loses it's network......whatever, it's just plain frustrating!!!!

Anyone else have this experience?
Robert
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unclejeff
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When I ordered my Transporter, they had no inventory so they gave away Squeezeboxes to anyone waiting for a Transporter. I am also a MAC guy and I have since stored most of my favorite music (approx. 1,250 songs) on my MAC and I am using the slimdevices to access my music.

Sometimes the slimdevices will lose its pathway to the computer even though I am totally hard wired using a gateway modem. There is also the charming Apple router which works as well, if not better than the Gateway. I use CAT 5e cables.

Yes, sometimes I have to shut down the slimdevices to get them a few minutes to 'rest' and sometimes they lose their settings altogether. Still, I am very happy with them. The Transporter serves my high-end DAC using the AES/EBU outpot and I also use the Transporter's analog output to another room and the squeezebox serves yet another area.

The Transporter also has an output to control jitter but I don't have anything to plug it into, yet.
unclejeff
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Attention all slimdevices owners: Thanks to this thread I checked out the latest downloads and I just updated to the version 6.5.3 which was released on July 11, 2007.

Oh, while I think this has helped, what was really good is that it got me to...tinker...with basic settings. My Transporter, all by itself stopped continuous(sp?) display of the Artist/Album/Duration of what is playing from my library, less than 10 seconds after activation. I went to the Transporter's front panel and I tapped a couple of times on 'brightness' and now things are back to normal. Very entertaining.
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