Unitiserve interface - issues and observations
Posted by: PBenny1066 on 18 December 2010
Took delivery of U/S hardisk version a few weeks ago and am very happy with it, sound quality is excellent to my ears. The interface has given a few problems, which I thought might be of general interest. Keen to hear if others have had similar issues.
1) First off the desktop client interface only seems to be available for Windows not Mac. The user manual seems to indicate that the desktop client interface gives more functionality than the web interface I'm using, but it doesn't say what.
2) The ripping software gets a few things wrong (using the online look up with AMG), in terms of album titles and so on. Ended up manually correcting these.
3) A couple of albums just couldn't be renamed for some reason which I can't begin to fathom. Seems like if the renamed version contains the same word as the ripped version, it won't modify. Have given up on this.
4) Two albums (out of 500 rips) just will not rip at all. Just get ejected without any error message. Proper CD's, bought in UK, not dodgy copies of which there are many in my part of the world.
iTunes rips them both OK. So my workaround has been to rip in AIFF in Itunes then put on a USB stick to play in the U/S. Works fine, but what a pain. I won't be retiring the MacMini just yet after all.....
5) USB playback seems to require a restart of the U/S before it "sees" the device - can't just plug in a stick and play straight away.
All in all I'm happy with the U/S. Sonically excellent. And none of the issues with the interface are the end of the world. But nor is they world class......
Cheers, Paul
1) First off the desktop client interface only seems to be available for Windows not Mac. The user manual seems to indicate that the desktop client interface gives more functionality than the web interface I'm using, but it doesn't say what.
2) The ripping software gets a few things wrong (using the online look up with AMG), in terms of album titles and so on. Ended up manually correcting these.
3) A couple of albums just couldn't be renamed for some reason which I can't begin to fathom. Seems like if the renamed version contains the same word as the ripped version, it won't modify. Have given up on this.
4) Two albums (out of 500 rips) just will not rip at all. Just get ejected without any error message. Proper CD's, bought in UK, not dodgy copies of which there are many in my part of the world.
iTunes rips them both OK. So my workaround has been to rip in AIFF in Itunes then put on a USB stick to play in the U/S. Works fine, but what a pain. I won't be retiring the MacMini just yet after all.....
5) USB playback seems to require a restart of the U/S before it "sees" the device - can't just plug in a stick and play straight away.
All in all I'm happy with the U/S. Sonically excellent. And none of the issues with the interface are the end of the world. But nor is they world class......
Cheers, Paul