How user friendly is the Squeezebox?

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mgalusha

Re: devil in the details
« Reply #40 on: 30 Dec 2005, 08:48 pm »
Quote from: Scott F.
If you want to really get frustrated, try fast forward or reverse


Yeah, isn't that nice. Doesn't work if you enable server side decoding, which, of course, sounds better.  :evil:

nathanm

you've seen enough of that one
« Reply #41 on: 30 Dec 2005, 09:18 pm »
Quote from: Scott F.
Don't quote me on this because its a pure guess but I think the whole 11 thing might go back to Marshall amps and Spinal Tap.
Too bad, I just quoted you on that.  :P Well yes, of course it is, that's why I said I went out for a bite and when I came back it was still sustaining! :wink:  Going to 11 is cool, but the display should also go to 11.  I mean it's always good to be able to go one louder, but they make it look like you can go 29 louder when it's actually just pegged at 11. :(

Haven't tried fast forwarding, but that's always sucked from the get go with digital audio.  I am impressed that my Denon DVD player plays a 44.1 CD at twice the sampling rate so you can get chipmunk speed at 2x fast forward.  Kinda cool.  But once you go beyond that you just get blips and burps and have to guesstimate where you are.

mgalusha

How user friendly is the Squeezebox?
« Reply #42 on: 31 Dec 2005, 01:43 pm »
And to top it off it uses 0 - 100 in the program code. I rewrote the volume control of the web UI to use + and - buttons and my display now goes from 0 to 100 by 5's below 20 and by increments of 10 above 20. I did this because I didn't like the limited number of steps of 1-11. Read computer geek with too much time one afternoon.  :lol:

Scott F.

How user friendly is the Squeezebox?
« Reply #43 on: 31 Dec 2005, 03:04 pm »
Mike,

You do open source?!  

Wanna write a little add in program for the SB that does a phase reversal as menu option? That would be a great little tweak to make some of our music sound even better.