2011-03-27, 18:44
I usually avoid updates unless I have a specific problem that needs addresses and was running a early version of 9 for some time. Saw the claim that the 10.1 bug fix addressed the SMB share problem of intermittent shares not be found and decided to upgrade. Wow, talk about regrets.
Not only is the SMB shares problem not fixed, it's magnitudes worse. Where I used to occasionally boot up and not be able to find a share now it's every single time and it takes 3 to 5 reboots to be to see a share that I want to access. I've tried deleting and recreating all the sources but no help.
In addition to that problem getting worse the changes to the was the library organizes is mind boggling bad.
First there's an added tab at the main menu the displays what the software thinks are content sorted according to type, movies, TV Shows etc, is but it's a convoluted mess of nothing essentially. To get to the actual shares you created you have to select file and go down one level (the addition of another layer of complexity in use that has caused my wife and teenage daughter to simply give up and refuse to use the system(s) any more) and then the problems just get worse.
Despite whatever names an audio or video file has the library has decided for about 1/3 of them a different name is more appropriate to display; for instance a video by the named "All About Steve.mkv" is displayed by XBMC as All Star Baseball 2000, a folder named Holiday Videos containing various holiday videos in different formats is displayed as Housewives Holiday Adventures 1969. I've tried cleaning the database to no avail.
If you have a functioning 9.x version of XBMC I would strongly recommend against "upgrading" to the 10.1 as it's a complete and utter mess.
Not only is the SMB shares problem not fixed, it's magnitudes worse. Where I used to occasionally boot up and not be able to find a share now it's every single time and it takes 3 to 5 reboots to be to see a share that I want to access. I've tried deleting and recreating all the sources but no help.
In addition to that problem getting worse the changes to the was the library organizes is mind boggling bad.
First there's an added tab at the main menu the displays what the software thinks are content sorted according to type, movies, TV Shows etc, is but it's a convoluted mess of nothing essentially. To get to the actual shares you created you have to select file and go down one level (the addition of another layer of complexity in use that has caused my wife and teenage daughter to simply give up and refuse to use the system(s) any more) and then the problems just get worse.
Despite whatever names an audio or video file has the library has decided for about 1/3 of them a different name is more appropriate to display; for instance a video by the named "All About Steve.mkv" is displayed by XBMC as All Star Baseball 2000, a folder named Holiday Videos containing various holiday videos in different formats is displayed as Housewives Holiday Adventures 1969. I've tried cleaning the database to no avail.
If you have a functioning 9.x version of XBMC I would strongly recommend against "upgrading" to the 10.1 as it's a complete and utter mess.