Brian
It's on it's way to being something great but it feels extraordinarily un-polished. It looks polished. But it's just not there. All too often things will silently fail. I have to reboot it at least once a day for seemingly odd reasons. If I'm playing music from an album and then attempt to play a playlist it will simply not do anything. Something fails behind the scenes but there's no message of any kind. Then, nothing will play until rebooting. Another nice feature is that 60-70% of the time I try to use a premium feature, like expand the album story, it will inform me that I need to be a Volumio Premium subscriber. I am. It's logged in. It says I'm a premium user right next to the message saying I need to be a premium user. I should be able to sort things. You can't sort anything. When listing albums it does so alphabetically but it doesn't disregard folder hierarchy first. What does this mean? If you have nested directories, or a collection of directories that make up your library, it will sort by the directory first and then contents of the directories second. This would be fine if I was simply looking at the file system, but I'm not. I have no visibility into that when I'm simply trying to list all albums in my library. But because of this oddity and the inability to sort any data in any meaningful (or non-meaningful way) I'm subject to whatever sorting rules Volumio built in and I can't do anything to change the sort order of anything being displayed. You take it how they give it. So, as a premium subscriber (despite the software not believing me), I would say don't bother becoming a premium subscriber until they make this software feel like it's at least at a beta level. Most plugins are non-starters in version 3. You can't do Pandora. And all this really does is provide an interface to a sound card or USB device so it's not like there's magic under the hood that makes the sound better. With that said, it does sound good but only because I'm pumping it into thousands of dollars worth of equipment. It beats the balls off of bluetooth audio, but that's nothing Volumio is doing. Will I cancel my premium subscription? No. But I have low self-esteem. Am I being overly harsh about the software? Probably. But I've been a software engineer for over 20 years and I would not ship this product with my name on it. But really, this thing has loads of potential if it could get out of its own way.
2 years ago
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