Xbian 1.0 - disappointed

[raspberry_pd]

(25th Sep, 2013 04:12 AM)IriDium Wrote:  Looking at your previous posts, you are never happy but never willing to add.

A project that can't accept constructive criticism is one that is less likely to flourish IMHO.

(25th Sep, 2013 04:12 AM)IriDium Wrote:  Take a tour with beta 1.2 it's fast, efficient, reliable and the best Xbian so far but I'm sure you will find something to complain about. but you still stick with xbian - why is that? Raspbmc, Openelec vi for your custom, but you stick with us? Is that because Xbian is the best?

Did XBian ever actually achieve a usable version 1.0 yet? Or are you referring to a second beta for version 1, which would then be Version 1.0 beta 2? I know it might sound / read like semantics, and every software project just makes up their own numbering with no inter-project guidelines, but I think the significant failure of 1.0 beta 1, which required an immediate 1.0 beta 1.1 (getting messy isn't it?) was a reasonable grounds for complaint.

(25th Sep, 2013 04:12 AM)IriDium Wrote:  Please be constructive in any thread and do some research before posting a derogatory comment. And if you do post a thread, follow the guide lines "Please read before you post" a link is provided in my signature for your convenience as you seem to have missed it first time around :-)

Agreed, got to be constructive (not that I'm suggesting Castella usually isn't as I've not been reading this forum for a while so I wouldn't know for sure) and if users aren't willing to participate somehow in improving the system, their right to express any dissatisfaction should be somewhat limited I guess.

(25th Sep, 2013 04:12 AM)IriDium Wrote:  I await - with great anticipation - your reply and comments about beta 1.2 - I cannot wait

One thing (apart from not having the time) that stops me from trying new releases is the decentralized XBMC library. I know it can be centralized but most people I've asked about doing that say it's clunky at best.

FWIW I tried RasPlex and out-of-the-box it's reasonably good for a project that appears have been running for less time than XBian, so it's not just RaspBMC vs OpenELEC (though RasPlex is based on OpenELEC) vs XBian.

The thing about Plex having a centralized library all of a sudden have become quite appealing for me but I am also relatively happy with XBian 1.0 Alpha 5. I've even got btsync running on one of my instances of it in the background! Is it possible that XBian's flavour of XBMC can be configured/developed/altered to talk to a Plex server? It would be great if there was an XBMC add-on that allowed an XBian build to talk to a central Plex server. In terms of testing it would potentially be more realistic as well since those who complain about slow menus and so forth, may be actually experiencing this due to larger libraries than your average tester/developer.

A vanilla install of XBMC can never be compared to an in-action one, with a substantial library, IMHO. Perhaps XBian could reduce tester complaints about speed if everyone tested with a significant-sized, identical and consistent library of files? Might sound hard to achieve but this is the era of bittorrent