OK, here's a list, I try to prioritize but of course some priorities could be different tomorrow:
1. (most important, by far): Remote controllability. That's what I purchased my first SB for and it's still the most important factor. By this I mean that I can get my full functionality through a useful, well-performing remote as in iPeng or the SB Controller. Sonos does this similarly well. 2. Multiroom capability: Not at all important at the first purchase but as soon as you have tried two of them, you want one in every room. 3. Extensibility: A LOT of the features I use are provided by 3rd parties: your plugins, iPeng,... If this were to go away, Squeezebox would be a non-product for me simply for the lack of capabilities as they come from Logitech. 4. Product range. There's a Squeezebox for every application. This is important if you want one in every room. 5. Audio Quality. At least for my "main" setup that's of course important as well. What could be improved: 1. Ease of setup. I sold quite a few people on this but all of them either were geeks or got it installed by me. Normal people don't manage to get a useful setup up and running. 2. Ease of setup. This really is an issue. 3. Ease of setup. I mean it! 4. Reliability. Too many things broken way too often 5. Reliability. Really way too many things. 6. Interoperability. It has to work better with iTunes and there has to be a better way to integrate e.g. a server on a NAS with your library on a Notebook. If I can ask one feature, this would be it. 7. Library management. For the same reason as 6. "normal" users don't have a lot of different software for this. 8. Use UPnP sources. Sources only. The player need not support this, but the server needs to. Priorities: I would like to add another category, because it has nothing to do with features, but is IMHO essential for the survival of the product. 1. Forget about DLNA/UPnP (but be able to use it as a source). DLNA/UPnP is broken by design and will never really be successful in the marketplace, it will eventually go away. I mean it! 2. Fix software development processes and provide a stable API and support to 3rd parties. You will not be able to maintain a 3rd party developer community without this and without the 3rd party community you will never be able to provide even the basic functionality needed to sell the product. Successful companies in this segment do this. All of them. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72512 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
