Squeezebox Touch Skin Selection
I'm still using a Squeezebox Touch as a digital music source (all my content is 16/44, and bits is bits...). Most of the replay system is now controlled by phone apps or automated by Home Assistant, but there was one thing that still bugged me. Squeezeboxes are known to crash and reboot after 2^31 milliseconds (24.855 days) due to a timer processing bug in the application code. Whenever this happens, the display reverts to the default "Touchscreen" style, with small buttons and text. You have to use an IR remote control to reset it to the larger font that is more visible from the other side of the room. This happens even if you set the desired skin to large for both Touch and Remote modes. So being a retired software engineer, what could be more natural than spending several hours working out how to avoid doing something that takes 5 seconds once a month or so ? A further thin justification is that the Squeezebox IR remote has gone very sticky, in the way of 13 year old s...