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RE: My computers give me a lot more trouble than my music players

The "crippling" in this case was inability to access Gracenote for metadata. This sort of thing happens with application software as well.

Just this month iTunes 12.2 came out and mangled users' libraries. When Apple software has a bug that screws up your music library, which is in a proprietary iTunes database, you are at the mercy of Apple waiting for a fix, are you not?

Unless you can revert to an older iTunes version by restoring your root volume from a backup, and also restore your iTunes library from a backup.
But then again, the HAP-Z1ES supports backing up and restoring your music library too.

It is theoretically possible that a bad firmware update could brick your HAP-Z1ES or similar device and render it unable to do a network update, necessitating a repair trip, whereas a computer can usually be restored from "bare metal". So you have a point there. But I think that is a very rare occurrence.


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