On Jun 7, 2009, at 10:49 AM, autopilot wrote: > Interesting though that you plan to split the webUI and core server > into two seperate and distinctly named elements. Not really. Squeezebox Server still has a web interface that lets you control your Squeezebox and manage your server..
But Matt's idea is that the user's expectation is that the server can be controlled from a more traditional control panel, at least on Windows and Mac. The trick is getting that control panel right. It doesn't take away from the web control, but does, hopefully, add a more intuitive way of managing your server and your squeezebox. We actually have two different web applications: - browsing and playback control - account, service and player management And it turns out that both kinds of functions need to work from mysqueezebox.com (nee SqueezeNetwork) as well as from your Squeezebox Server (nee SqueezeCenter). Unfortunately, we've had _four_ different interfaces for this, which is way too many. So, I'm pushing for: - our "Web Remote" for browsing and playback to be consistent, no matter if it's coming from your computer or the mysqueezebox.com site. - a simplified server control panel for managing the software running on your computer - a consistent, centralized web interface to manage internet-based services, radio, etc. on mysqueezebox.com Now power users (like us) want more, um, power, so we'll continue to allow some utility access via your web browser (or even command line) to the internal bits, progressively revealing useful stuff to everyone when we can make it simple enough. _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
