On 03/04/13 06:58, Mark Rogers wrote:
I won't give up on OwnCloud just yet, I think I'll just have to avoid the repos for now.
I installed it from the tarball last night (there is a ubuntu package but it's out of date)
On first impressions I am fairly underwhelmed at the moment if I am honest. As a simple cloud drive it is ok, It supports very basic versioning and deleted item recovery etc. You can of course generate links to share files/folders.
I installed the android sync app (non-free) and yes I can browse and download files and upload photos etc. However even that is missing functionality as the droid client doesn't seem to support syncing contacts and calendars, which given the dedicated support in owncloud seems like a massive oversight (though owncloud does support Cal/CardDAV so you can use a 3rd party app but I would have expected this functionality in the dedicated and paid for app)
A lot of the functionality they talk about on the features page is either buggy or incomplete or just poorly implemented. The External Storage feature to sync up with other cloud services sounded promising but I can't get it to even work for Google Drive and if it did it seems to do little more than just add a shortcut to your GDrive files.
There is a Journal app for shared notes...looked interesting but again on closer inspection is actually quite limited.
I would have liked the music library functionality to have replaced kplaylist on my server, but the streaming playback functionality they have is only really good enough for quickly previewing the files...It didn't index my library very well, and can only order it by Artist it seems. You can't browse your music library by file structure only by the meta info. You can of course see it with your other files but you can't actually play anything from there. The sync clients don't support the music library, no support to save playlists..random play etc..
I'll continue to play with it and see if I can tweak the configuration or find 3rd party plugins that help but for the moment I'd say only the basic functionality is fit for purpose and ignore the "advanced features"