> I am running LMS on a really old (2005) Mac Mini. Amazingly, it seems to
> run great and has been very reliable. One minor annoyance is that it
> prompts to update LMS right after you boot. But when you say, "OK" to go
> ahead and update nothing happens.
Head over to http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nig...ex.php?ver=7.7
and grab the latest 7.7.6 build. One issue it fixes is the failing
update notification. Hopefully :-).
> I think I am running LMS 7.7.2. The
> Mac Mini is running Mac OS 10.4.
Is it Intel based or PowerPC?
> Incidentally, this Mac Mini only has 512M of Ram. All Musc is stored on
> an external USB drive. I was hoping to upgrade the internal hard disk to
> a 256M SSD that I have laying around but the Mac HDD is the old ATA
> style interface! Guess my upgrade options are a bit limited in this
> case!
If you're going to open up that box to install an SSD, don't forget to
add a few gigabytes of memory, too. The whole SSD advantage would be
lost due to lack of memory.
> Anyway, I am not sure I care if I upgrade LMS since the version I have
> now works OK. Is there any way I can get LMS to stop checking for an
> update? Alternatively, are there any compelling reasons t update LMS?
Never touch a running system... check Settings/Advanced/Software
updates. Make sure it's all turned off. Then stop LMS. Go to
~/Library/Caches/Squeezebox and delete the Updates sub-folder. That
should take care of the update notification.
But yes, there are good reasons to update. But they probably don't apply
to you:
- if you're using Spotify and/or Napster/Rhapsody, then you should
update, as we had to fix a few issues there
- LMS 7.9 has a few nice improvements like virtual libraries (library
views), playing files without scanning them first, new browse modes,
performance improvements (would require a bit more memory than you have
:-))
Check out http://goo.gl/zfz2sn for yourself. It's up to you whether any
of those changes are worth the potential hassle of an update.
--
Michael
> run great and has been very reliable. One minor annoyance is that it
> prompts to update LMS right after you boot. But when you say, "OK" to go
> ahead and update nothing happens.
Head over to http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nig...ex.php?ver=7.7
and grab the latest 7.7.6 build. One issue it fixes is the failing
update notification. Hopefully :-).
> I think I am running LMS 7.7.2. The
> Mac Mini is running Mac OS 10.4.
Is it Intel based or PowerPC?
> Incidentally, this Mac Mini only has 512M of Ram. All Musc is stored on
> an external USB drive. I was hoping to upgrade the internal hard disk to
> a 256M SSD that I have laying around but the Mac HDD is the old ATA
> style interface! Guess my upgrade options are a bit limited in this
> case!
If you're going to open up that box to install an SSD, don't forget to
add a few gigabytes of memory, too. The whole SSD advantage would be
lost due to lack of memory.
> Anyway, I am not sure I care if I upgrade LMS since the version I have
> now works OK. Is there any way I can get LMS to stop checking for an
> update? Alternatively, are there any compelling reasons t update LMS?
Never touch a running system... check Settings/Advanced/Software
updates. Make sure it's all turned off. Then stop LMS. Go to
~/Library/Caches/Squeezebox and delete the Updates sub-folder. That
should take care of the update notification.
But yes, there are good reasons to update. But they probably don't apply
to you:
- if you're using Spotify and/or Napster/Rhapsody, then you should
update, as we had to fix a few issues there
- LMS 7.9 has a few nice improvements like virtual libraries (library
views), playing files without scanning them first, new browse modes,
performance improvements (would require a bit more memory than you have
:-))
Check out http://goo.gl/zfz2sn for yourself. It's up to you whether any
of those changes are worth the potential hassle of an update.
--
Michael