I have a lot of clunkiness with Rhapsody in 6.5.2 - 12069.  I have only just come back to 6.5 today.  The clunkiness is similar to what I have seen in the past.  Putting on the new SlimServer seems to require a reboot to get SlimServer to "see" Rhapsody.  (I note a bug that says you should just wait a while to see if Rhapsody comes up, so perhaps I will start doing that.)  After doing that, frequently when I try to play music, it will not play.  I get "Connection Timed Out" errors.  The fix for this seems to be to play a non-Rhapsody track, then go back to Rhapsody.

It's very hard to report these bugs because there is just a generalized failure of SlimServer, Rhapsody, and the Squeezebox to link up and do what they are supposed to do.  Weird problems, like "Connection Timed Out" happen, and it is not always clear what fixes them.  But the linkage is pretty weak.  6.3 did not seem to have nearly the amount of difficulty with Rhapsody that 6.5.2 has.  I can only assume that you guys are not seeing these bugs because they would be as blatantly obvious and annoying to you as they are to me.

There isn't anything unusual about my system.  The SlimServer system is Windows XP SP2 and is pretty much dedicated to SlimServer and Rhapsody.  I get on it using VNC from my other computer.

So . . . call this whining, but it is really very frustrating when the software does not simply link up and work properly, and there is no clear path to either describing or fixing the problems.