I'm still having serious issues with Linked Zones. Essentially the feature is buggy to the point of not being usable for me. I have to assume that others do not see problems here since I've not seen much on the boards here about it not working. I'm really not sure what to try to debug or fix this, as from the user side I expect the linked zones to just sort of work...but they don't...at all. Linking the zones (by dragging one on top of the other) will sometimes cause the second zone to begin playing, sometimes it will just show the PN list from the other zone, but with nothing playing. When it does begin playback in the second zone they are never actually sync'd up, often they are off by more than one song. Sometimes (arbitrarily to my observation) it will get stuck on a single song and repeat it until I manually skip it.
Another possibly noteworthy detail is that gapless playback does not seem to work at all when zones are linked. The whole GUI actually freezes for about 15 seconds while the next track loads up. It works fine enough when streaming from the server without zones being linked. I would sort of understand this if this time was being used to sync the songs back up, but this doesn't happen at all.
So, I know none of these details are super helpful, but I'd really appreciate any help on getting a reliable media server/network setup going. The wiki doesn't really help me out any here and admittedly many of the server related options don't necessarily lend themselves to my understanding them easily. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
-Jon