I don't believe video streaming is worthwhile either. Many people rip CDs for use with iPods, but honestly, do many people bother to rip DVDs? That's another level of complexity for no gain, as far as I'm concerned. i.e. with an audio library, I can play random music, etc. Would I like to play random chapters across my film library? No.
I also don't buy into social networking as being a killer feature. I don't think of going to my squeezebox to discover what other people have been listening to recently. I may see friends album review through emails/tweets/facebook posts/blogs, etc and think I'll try a bit of that. I'll then go to iTunes/LastFM/Spotify/MySpace/All Music Guide and try some snipits. A way to easily send music from my browsing to a player would be my thinking, but I wouldn't think of doing all the above on a little Squeezebox player UI. A killer feature would be something like MusicIP and LastFM combined, built into Squeezebox Server. Analyse music library and playing habbits to suggest music you might like instead, etc. It already does a lot of this, but only via third-party apps, integration with other apps. That kind of requires ratings and play stats history, such as provided by Erlands plugins. A normal user struggles to set all this up (MusicIP is virtually dead, Erlands plugins aren't going to work much longer, etc). _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
