pippin;494792 Wrote: > 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.
To be honest, *you* do it really well, Logitech not so much. The SBC has never really lived up to its promise, due to power management and lingering connectivity issues. pippin;494792 Wrote: > > 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! > You're not just talking about running the installer, are you? Are you able to be more specific about what you consider broken/missing? pippin;494792 Wrote: > > 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. > I haven't looked recently, but at least until 7.3.4 there has been functionality for browsing and playing audio content on UPnP servers. It was disabled by default but could be turned on and used if required. pippin;494792 Wrote: > > > > 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. I don't know why you comment on DNLA/UPnP so much; it seems like there has never been much focus on it in the Squeeze ecosystem, and I wasn't expecting that to change... As for fixing the software development process and providing a stable API, that's easy to say but much harder to do, especially in tight economic times. What would you suggest in practical terms? -- dsdreamer ---------------------- "Dreamer, easy in the chair that really fits you..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dsdreamer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72512 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
