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Old 05-06-2008, 06:42 PM   #26
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Quote: Originally Posted by 2k1Toaster View Post
I dont know what you guys are doing, but in the stickied thread in the RR forum with the installer, I download it. I download winamp. Install winamp. Install RR via the installer. Both of these are just next,next,next,finish type deals. After that RR Config pops up. I click the music path box, set to my music drive. Click the music types, select mp3. click save and exit. Double click RR icon on the desktop, and RoadRunner is playing the winamp llamma tune, everything works.

It comes with the default skin that works just fine. You never need to touch an ini file. Didnt need anything else.

so to reiterate:

what is so difficult about this!?!?

Well I found the problem and this is part of the problem with it not being intuative, it does come with a default skin but it doesn't know where it is and doesn't work untill you tell it where it is, I didn't know that the first time I tried it.

edit: I'm still sticking with my original opinion of it being to hard to setup, it's just to complicated and not intuative at all and things don't work how would expect them too, like setting the res, I set it at 800x480 configurer but it still renders at what looks like 800x600, I had to dig around in the ini files till I found something to fix that and then even getting it to reconize my music collection is pita, told the configurer were to find them and the broswer see them though nothing is in the proper track order desipite me telling it to use ID3 tags and when I click anything to play it it just goes back to the music player screen, doesn't play anything, other frontends for example are so much easier and intuative, like Frodoplayer, set folder location, click sync/build button and it's done and works.

From what I could see it does look nice and I do like the interface, but the setup is horible to the point of not worth it, what should be a simple task is extrodinarily cumbersome, hell it was easier to set up my music library in windows media player.
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