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Question about updates
I'm new to this, so generally updates are monthly on a Friday? Usually by what time?
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Re: Question about updates
mjl wrote:I'm new to this, so generally updates are monthly on a Friday? Usually by what time?
Noooooooooooo... generally updates are whenever they're ready. I think the friday thing of the past few updates has just been coincidence, not based on an actual schedule.
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It's not uncommon for updates in the IT world to come out on Fridays, at the end of the month, etc. Those just make sense as target dates. However, TheEndless is correct in that the Roku updates come out on a relatively arbitrary and unpublished schedule when the developers feel that what they have been working on is ready for prime-time.
We should start a Beta release betting pool. That would make the wait more fun.
We should start a Beta release betting pool. That would make the wait more fun.
Re: Question about updates
mjl wrote:I'm new to this, so generally updates are monthly on a Friday? Usually by what time?
I assume you're joking. As you can clearly see from the
"PhotoBridge HD1000 2.0 Beta Announcement: **NEW** 17-Jun: Beta 2.0.34 + SDK now available"
that it has been about a month and a half since the last update. All I really care about is the re-implementation of “shuffle play†on the music player. I don't mind not getting new functions, but losing existing ones is unacceptable. There are many people that visit this forum who have been asking about this very thing and we have gotten no response from Roku.
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Re: Question about updates
Gregavi wrote:There are many people that visit this forum who have been asking about this very thing and we have gotten no response from Roku.
Whoa! Slow down there, chief. RokuDon posted this response just last week: http://www.rokulabs.com/forums/viewtopi ... ght=#23927
RokuDon wrote:update coming soon - with shuffle, repeat modes, and view options implemented.
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SimonO wrote:Why don't you run 2.0.15..?
Because that version had it's own set of problems. I hate to sound like a complainer, but my complaints about this product are not petty, IMO. Judging by what I have read here on this and other Roku forums, I am not the only one who feels this way. It is a pretty good product, IMO, but if we, the consumer, do not demand and expect better, we will not get it.
By chosing to download something clearly indicated as Beta, you are chosing to take the risk that nothing will work properly 
Best of all though, since this device allows development on an open platform, if you don't like the pace someone else is moving at (keep in mind Roku isn't getting paid for additional work they put into this device, there's no support contract), you are free to implement it yourself.
Best of all though, since this device allows development on an open platform, if you don't like the pace someone else is moving at (keep in mind Roku isn't getting paid for additional work they put into this device, there's no support contract), you are free to implement it yourself.
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