Meridian Unplugged - Powered by MrTechGuy.co.uk Forums Discussion Meridian - Streaming Control:Mac not working preventing me using my Mac instead of Windows

I'm seeing the same behavior on some of the Macs I connect to my network, but not all of them. Unfortunately, the only one I own (as opposed to machines I borrow overnight from work) has shown this problem 100% since the day I upgraded to 10.7.4 (and now recurs in 10.8.2), Interestingly, a work machine launches CP just fine in 10.7.4 on the same router with the same security settings.

App file purges, reboots, safe boots, repaired permissions, new accounts have all failed to address the issue.

As far as I know, CP is the only application running on the Mono framework.

I've been working with Meridian support in the U.S. on this, but there has been no progress to date, and they've gone silent on me (again).

Meridian support has reengaged on this. We don't have it working yet, but they're gathering info to root cause the issue. As soon as I learn anything useful, I'll post it here.

Sure this is much too simple but I had numerous problems with Control:Mac after upgrading to 10.8.2, I tried everything I could think of and no success until:

Connect all Sooloos endpoints directly to router (no additional switches; wireless access point; etc.), reboot all devices, connect MacBook/iMac via Ethernet to router, launch Control:Mac. It worked for me, then I was able to reintroduce switches and also launch Control:Mac on all my other Apple devices wirelessly.

Wints1,
Unfortunately, your approach didn't solve the problem for my environment, but thanks very much for the idea. I'm still working with Meridian support.

Hope to have something useful to post soon.

Hi Everybody,

To my experience Control:PC works much better than Control:Mac. I also use MAC and PC. And so does my father. But we both belive that Control:PC works better. For what reason I don't wont speculate in. I have used both Snow Leopard and Lion. But I think Control:Mac worked better than under Snow Leopard..

This is just my opinion and not a fact.

Best regards, Per Nilsson, Sweden

Hi all,

My problem with the Mac is ongoing. Connecting only the Sooloos components and to the same switch made no difference, nor did any amount of rebooting/deinstalling/reinstalling of the Control:Mac app or Mono.

Luckily my Windows PC is back in action and that's what I use now. I have now given up on the Mac.

One of the reasons for looking to Mac was my hope that importing would be better than with Control:PC, more specifically give me control over the metadata (tickbox "prefer local metadata" not working). But now that I know that Control:Mac, like Control:PC, is basically a browser, a window on top of the operating system of the storage device (in my case the MD600), I'm guessing that operability/features/bugs would be the same whether Mac or PC is used.

@Akimo: good to hear that Meridian are looking into the Mac problem!

Hi Christiaan,
What leads you to this? Are you thinking of Control:Web which is browser based?

Regards,
Carl

I have also had problems with Control:Mac (random behaviour). The best thing is to use Control:PC. I have never been able to rip a CD on my iMac, so I sold it instead of being irritated.

Never ripped a CD? What programme were you trying to use, Control:Mac or XLD?

I did have a problem with the speed of XLD but it's a lot faster now.

I have used Control:Mac and iTunes. Normally after 2-3 tracks the rip was stopped saying bad CD. But the same CD worked OK in my PC.

Hi Carl, well I'm not 100% sure, but I know that the functionality is based inside the core which is the MD600 in my case. I'm tempted to think that Control:PC is therefore indeed not as much a program as it is a window, a remote link to the Core. It might as well be much like a browser, and I am confounded in that idea by the way that Control:PC works. For example there will be no elements at all, just a white background, if it can't get a connection to the core. This would be different if it were a program where you would just see all graphics but no values. But maybe I'm seeing this too simple. As always I'm happy to be corrected if I'm wrong!

I'd say that Control:PC and Control@Mac can be described as 'Thick Client' ie an installed application on the local device where as Control:Web is a 'Thin Client' i.e. no installed local application and the server based pages are rendered by a browser.

However, both of course access the server 'Sooloos core / storage' for data.

Regards,
Carl