by njp » 30 Oct 2014, 20:17
Major big-up to everyone on the Runeaudio team. Installed the 0.3 beta yesterday and my unit has been running until today without a fault on Ethernet (not used WiFi so can't comment on any possible bugs in that area). Apart from the settings bug where the Audio Output shows something different (in my case the RaspberryPi HDMI) it's still locked onto my IQaudiO i2s output so surely a very minor issue that doesn't really break usability at all.
Sorry to hear many people having issues but these are all just teething issues, I'm sure the team will sort them when they can. As for the main function of the software, it's playing my music faultlessly! Not a blink! Sound quality is still exceptional, and definitely no issues with clicking/popping/etc.
Just have to also say, I love the UI's colour scheme - couldn't have chosen a better scheme myself. The blacks and blues - really looks the business on tablets and phones. Very subtle and easy on the eye. Although this was the same on previous builds just thought I'd make a comment regarding it because it's just a pleasure to have open on any device. All details are appreciated, even down to the curved corner border box in bluey-grey that encloses the album art. It's all just slick.
I've spotted some tiny things with the UI that I think were also there in the 0.3 alpha:
- Sometimes the circles for the track navigation and volume adjustment disappear, but a refresh or a browser close/open seems to rectify this.
- The volume appears at 100 on my android phone (even though it's really at 75) but once I change it, it kinda grabs control of the volume again and I'd have to set it at 75 again. Minor as not really adjusting volume but an issue nevertheless with the UI.
- The track navigation circle seems to freeze it's progress at the last point the page was open - but the track timer is still going. I.e. at 60min track at 30min progress, half the circle should be blue but only a small percentage of it is (from when I minimised the webpage or moved to another tab in my browser).
These are all minor and Runeaudio is still more than functional in the meantime - if only at 0.3 beta there's a long road to go before a fully stable release but to be honest, in it's current state the fact that it's fully usable and stable being ran 24/7 (time will tell, only 24 hours so far) is brilliant. I'll be making a donation very shortly, not much but it'll be the first of many over the coming times.
Hardware: Raspberry PI Model B + IQaudiO PI-DAC + D-Link DUB-H7 + TP-Link TL-WN722N & 5dBI Antenna
Software: runeaudio v0.3 alpha