Terrible user interface (Freecom Network Mediaplayer-350 WLAN)

Member Name: NickF

Product:	Freecom Network Mediaplayer-350 WLAN
Date:	25/05/07 (911 review reads)
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Advantages: right connectors

Disadvantages: wrong software

This bit of kit sounds fantastic from the description, however don't be fooled!

From a hardware and connection point of view it's got everything you would need. All sounds perfect, except the software and user interface is terrible. Really terrible.

Even doing some simple things like playing all the mp3's in a random order can't be done (especially if you have too many mp3s). The software trys to build a playlist first by searching the hard disk for relevant file, but there must be a limit on the buffer size so this dies when you've got too many mp3s.

The same is true of the jpg viewer. Not very good, and also very slow to generate the next picture view.

Playing video wasn't bad, but nothing to write home about.

Not what I'd call a quality box. You're better off having a copy of windows media centre or something similar.

Or wait for the bugs to fix.

Summary: don't buy it.

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