My 7.5.1 experience so far.....

[ciarmer]

First let me say that I love this radio (not as much as my two booms and my two receivers and my controller, but I love this radio). I have very bad radio reception on my regular radios, so now I can listen to all my local stations. I can also listen to podcasts and I also am a Sirius radio subscriber. Plus, lots of other stuff like Pandora, Slacker, etc.

But, the 7.5.1 update was a total flop. I don't know that anything changed.

1. When I first turn the radio on, it plays for less than 30 seconds and then turns off (same behavior as pre-upgrade).

2. The alarm turns on but shuts off after a few seconds (no matter if it is set on Sirius or Pandora - have not tried other stuff).

3. Once alarm turns off by itself, it never sounds a snooze alarm.

4. Sometimes, the "art" doesn't update when I change from one radio station to another or from one Sirius channel to another. When that happens, the radio must be rebooted (if that's the right term - hold power button and let it shut down then press the power and let it boot up again).

I wonder what the upgrade fixed? Didn't they do any testing before they released this thing?

I use Mysqueezebox.com almost exclusively. From what I've read here, perhaps the behavior would be better if i used squeezebox server but the fact is, my computer is normally off.

In summary, I think the radio is great. It would be really wonderful if they got some of the bugs out of it.

[ply3908]

You are not alone. I have the all the same issues. The problems not going away from 7.42 to 750 to 7.51. Logitech hired cheap programmers I guess,

First let me say that I love this radio (not as much as my two booms and my two receivers and my controller, but I love this radio). I have very bad radio reception on my regular radios, so now I can listen to all my local stations. I can also listen to podcasts and I also am a Sirius radio subscriber. Plus, lots of other stuff like Pandora, Slacker, etc.

But, the 7.5.1 update was a total flop. I don't know that anything changed.

1. When I first turn the radio on, it plays for less than 30 seconds and then turns off (same behavior as pre-upgrade).

2. The alarm turns on but shuts off after a few seconds (no matter if it is set on Sirius or Pandora - have not tried other stuff).

3. Once alarm turns off by itself, it never sounds a snooze alarm.

4. Sometimes, the "art" doesn't update when I change from one radio station to another or from one Sirius channel to another. When that happens, the radio must be rebooted (if that's the right term - hold power button and let it shut down then press the power and let it boot up again).

I wonder what the upgrade fixed? Didn't they do any testing before they released this thing?

I use Mysqueezebox.com almost exclusively. From what I've read here, perhaps the behavior would be better if i used squeezebox server but the fact is, my computer is normally off.

In summary, I think the radio is great. It would be really wonderful if they got some of the bugs out of it.

[Mnyb]

With the risk of sounding totally dim witted...

Have you tried a factory reset of the thing (just note the email used for your mysb.com account ) .

My experience with the controller (almost same software) beta testing dozens of version, have taught me that sometimes even the *working* version of the fw will not behave well until a factory reset is done.

Hopefully I have not sent yall on a run around wasting some time.

[vdeknock]

I never use MySB as I have a vortexbox running 24/7. Radio has been rock solid and has woken me up each morning without fail. (Fallback alarm has gone off once in the last 2-3months).

I use a number of plugins and patches to fix issues that have been raised in the thread. The Patch for the Alarm to make it display a large clock is great, and fixes what I agree is an issue.

I sometimes have issues with radio streams, but this is normally an issue with my net connection of the wireless network in my house. ie the kids are moving large files or watching youtube on the network at the same time.

I have set the alarm to play a playlist called alarm with a single track, which I change. Once awake I then push the preset to get the radio stream working. While not what everyone wants is works and stops all the issues with the fallback alarm starting because of the bufferring of the stream.

The radio does work with a dedicated server running, but like most things can always be improved.

[ciarmer]

With the risk of sounding totally dim witted...

Have you tried a factory reset of the thing (just note the email used for your mysb.com account ) .

My experience with the controller (almost same software) beta testing dozens of version, have taught me that sometimes even the *working* version of the fw will not behave well until a factory reset is done.

Hopefully I have not sent yall on a run around wasting some time.

Thanks for the input. However, I just did a full factory reset. The behavior is exactly the same. as described in my 6-23-10 post.

[NeoET]

You are not alone. I have the all the same issues. The problems not going away from 7.42 to 750 to 7.51. Logitech hired cheap programmers I guess,

I have the same problem too since firmware 7.5.0

[0xdeadbeef]

Indeed some things have changed from 7.5.0 to 7.5.1. E.g. the Radio doesn't lose its default screensaver/background settings any more all the time. Also with 7.5.0, in like 6 of 10 cases, the backup alarm came up either at once or after a few seconds. Since 7.5.1, there are less backup alarms and much more cases where no alarm is started at all.

Now really, this is ridiculous. In the 8 months that I own the Radio, not one of the main issues has been fixed by Logitech. Instead things are getting rather worse than any better.
If I was somehow involved in the design or development process of this piece of crap software, I'd start to think of a different career. In a professional company, this time would be sufficient to develop a large software project from scratch and they don't even manage to get an alarm clock to work. There is simply no word for how pathetic this is.

[saurus]

1. The alarm clock screen shows only a very small clock that you cannot read even if you are only 1m away.
--> This has been mentioned already many times in the forum but it seems that this is not fixed. Unfortunately, the patch installer seems not to work any more so for me there is currently no solution for this.
--> This is a real bug for me and one reason why I think about returning the squeezebox radio. For me reading the clock while the alarm is on is a basic requirement!

This is not a bug, as it works as designed. So what one need to do is to create an enhancement request.

2. No auto play at startup:
If you listen to a internet radio station and then switch off the radio (standby mode) and then wake up in the morning (by yourself and not through an alarm) and you want to listen to the radio again you have to switch on the SB radio and then hit the play button.
--> This is almost not possible in a dark bedroom and this is a basic feature for me! Every radio starts playing, if you switch it on! If this is not fixed soon, I will sell the radio because it cannot be used as a bedroom radio this way!!!

This is a configuration item under

Player -> Audio -> Power on Resume

where you can choose

"Pause at power off / resume at power on"

If that does not work. Then I would consider it as bug.

Regards, Torsten

[toby10]

...........
"Pause at power off / resume at power on"

This option is only available when running SBS on the computer.
This is not an option when using MySB.com as Jukebox is doing.

[firegrip]

I am also a new owner with a few problems / complaints. 1st, my scroll will stop after a few songs, and will not display the current song or station info. Even if i change preset stations.
2nd, why is it that when I power the unit on from standby I have to hit play? Thats stupid if its an upgrade... why whould I want to do that?? Turn the unit on, music plays... just like a regular radio. I have rebooted the unit several times and the screen problem goes away, for now.