I've about had it with D-Links support. I think the reason that it is
so bad is to ensure that the 30 day return period runs out. My basic
problems boil down to this:
I can't use the supplied server as I have too many songs and it crashes.
When I use WMC the music will pause for 30 - 60 seconds periodically.
Tech support suggested bumping the priority of WMC and that seems to
have helped, but it isn't permanent. Does anyone know of a way to set
WMC to always be high priority? I don't see any reason that this
happens. CPU usages is around 2-3%, 250MB of free RAM. WMC is using
about 80MB of memory.
Also, the playlist or album stops after every protected song. You need
to manually advance. This doesn't happen except for DRM, everything I
ripped works fine.
Twonky Server works great. It's tremendously faster than WMC and the
organization of the artists under genre makes so much more sense. If it
played protected songs, I'd be using it 100% of the time.
If they could just get decent server software and fix some of the
niggling problems, this would be a great product. Unfortunately tech
support is non-existent. I've had an open issue for 5 weeks now, we
trade emails about once a week. But their using delaying tactics, not
really resolving the issue.
Jon
PS It would also be great if they'd add the ability to add a song,
album, or artist to the now playing queue.
Greg R. - 10 May 2005 01:50 GMT
I was having the same problem with my DSM-320. I downgraded the firmware of
the 320 to 1.04 and it has seemed to take care of the problem of pausing
during the music. For me it was also pausing during mpg videos when using
WMC.
Greg
> I've about had it with D-Links support. I think the reason that it is
> so bad is to ensure that the 30 day return period runs out. My basic
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> PS It would also be great if they'd add the ability to add a song,
> album, or artist to the now playing queue.
Jon Greisz - 11 May 2005 12:47 GMT
How did you downgrade? I'm trying to remember what 1.05 gave me,
therefore what I'd be losing. I'm not using it for videos. It feeds
into my whole house audio system.
Jon
> I was having the same problem with my DSM-320. I downgraded the firmware of
> the 320 to 1.04 and it has seemed to take care of the problem of pausing
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>>PS It would also be great if they'd add the ability to add a song,
>>album, or artist to the now playing queue.
Greg R. - 12 May 2005 00:36 GMT
The only things I noticed were in online services. No Napster or 365 Live
for 1.04
I found some instructions at
http://p214.ezboard.com/fdsm320frm2.showMessage?topicID=83.topic
If your already in the US then you don't need the ww files, download the
ones without the ww.
Edit the DSM320-VerInfor.txt and change the version to a higher number that
is on your DSM320. My file looked like this
VERSION='1.06'
LOCATION='FW-1.04'
I didn't download a ftp server but used the ftp server built into IIS since
I have XP pro. If you have home edition then you will have to download a ftp
server.
MAKE SURE you turn the auto check for new firmware off on the DSM320 so you
don't accidently upgrade after your downgrade.
If you need more deatils let me know.
Greg
> How did you downgrade? I'm trying to remember what 1.05 gave me,
> therefore what I'd be losing. I'm not using it for videos. It feeds
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> >>PS It would also be great if they'd add the ability to add a song,
> >>album, or artist to the now playing queue.
Jon Greisz - 12 May 2005 14:57 GMT
Great, when I gett a little time I'll try it out.
Thanks,
Jon
> The only things I noticed were in online services. No Napster or 365 Live
> for 1.04
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>>>>PS It would also be great if they'd add the ability to add a song,
>>>>album, or artist to the now playing queue.
Jon Greisz - 29 Jun 2005 23:12 GMT
I found a solution for 2 of my problems, ie. pausing in the middle of a
song and losing the server until after a couple reboots. It turned out
to be the firmware on my D-Link 624 wireless G router. I upgraded from
firmware 2.5 to 2.52 (unreleased but found a link on one of the forums).
This solved both problems, my 320 has been connected to the server
many times since without having problems, and the system doesn't pause
any more.
Now if only they'd release the firmware to make it play more than one
protected song and I'd be all set.
Jon
> I've about had it with D-Links support. I think the reason that it is
> so bad is to ensure that the 30 day return period runs out. My basic
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> PS It would also be great if they'd add the ability to add a song,
> album, or artist to the now playing queue.