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Upgrading to Cara

August 28th, 2009 0

With the Cara update now out for a while we can look back on how it went.

It mostly went smoothly from SongBook’s point of view, there were only a couple of issues.

The first was a bug which only appeared when adding a track on the DS using Linn’s new Kinsky Desktop and it’s drag and drop support. We were not aware of the drag and drop feature until release, so we did not test with it. It took user reports for this to be bought to our attention.

The second issue, which did affect quite a few users was a bug in Linn’s Konfig application. The first release did not preserve the source settings when upgrading the DS. Linn have now released a new version that fixes these issues, but for some users the damage is still done.

The error shows up in SongBook as everything working, but when you try and play a track nothing happens. This is because without correctly configured source names SongBook cannot match the DS source up with the preamp source and get’s a bit lost. The solution is to open Konfig again and make sure all the settings in the preamp sources are named correctly (and enabled).

So overall most things went smoothly. We get no warning from Linn when a new release is coming out, and we don’t get a chance to pre-test before the release, so there is usually a delay in our support of that release. Most SongBook users, if they want to avoid problems should therefore wait a small time before upgrading their Linn firmware. With the talk of audio improvements in Cara this may be hard though.

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