On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 01:08 -0700, ceejay wrote: > mwphoto Wrote: > I like the idea of a "Dummy's guide to the Squeezebox" - although why > it should just be aimed at audiophiles I'm not sure. Do we think that > audiophiles are more likely to be dummies? ;)
I personally find the "for dummies" titles at least too cute and usually a little insulting. But the mass market has rewarded the series with immense sales. I think most audiophiles are much _more_ technically oriented than the average consumer, but many are less computer centric than average. > In the spirit of open source, Wiki seems like the right technology to > use - I'd be prepared to contribute myself (since I can't write Perl > its the least I can do!). I'm not a fan of wikis, but maybe that is because I'm old. I prefer well written and edited text. But anyone can write copy. And there is no reason to require there to be "one true answer" We can do both. > However the current Wiki pages are very hard to use. That is one of the reason I'm not a fan. > Just one comment on Mwphoto's writeup ... please don't take this as a > complaint, because I can see you've put a lot of effort into this ... > but I think it would be better broken into separate pieces, rather than > trying to cover the whole SB world in one document. And I can see that > you've directed this deliberately at the Audiophile - but have covered > a lot of stuff which is just as relevant to the average user who > doesn't consider him/herself in that category. I think this is a key observation. To successfully use a SqueezeBox as an audiophile component, you need to know about a lot of separate things. Maybe not know a lot about them all, but audiophile amps, ripping, encoding, network wiring, etc. I think it has to be written in sections so you can pick and chose what you want, or skim and come back. > If so what needs to be done to it to encourage participation? Talk about it. Write sections. The technology is not important. Post your sections to this list. If it get too big to handle we can ask Dean for a separate forum section. To quote a religion popular in the early 1980s: there is no try, only do. So create it. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
