mherger;498684 Wrote: > > You might be correct considering the fact that almost no > functionality > > has been added during the last years that will greatly enhance the > > experience. Sure, the stability might have improved and there > support > > for some new on line streams and the web interface has been improved > a > > bit and support has been added to new hardware, but most of these > are > > just more or less maintenance fixes on an existing product. > > SB Touch a maintenance release of SB3? Agreed. And Windows 7 is just a > service pack for Windows 1.0. You must be kidding. > I suspected someone would react on that sentence, however SB Touch isn't available yet, is it ?
Still, from a music listening point of view, what does the SB Touch really provide to enhance the music listening experience compared to Classic ? Sure, it makes it easier since you don't need the server, but from a listening point of view when you have everything setup, what's the big new features that isn't available on a Classic ? I'm probably missing something, but the only advantage I can see when I'm sitting in the sofa with my IR remote is the color screen. Music store integrations, smart playlists, flexible browsing and other similar stuff would enhance the experience so much more. I'm not trying to say that you haven't done much the last year, I'm completely aware that there is a lot of hard work behind all the SBS/SqueezePlay releases. I'm just saying that the focus has been mostly on simplifying the setup and support new hardware and some new online streams. These are things I as a customer just expect should work. There is one thing that comes to mind that enhances the experience from a music listening point of view and that's the Controller hardware. However, I'm sorry to say that I still feel that an iPod Touch with iPeng is both cheaper and better, but that's just me. My feeling is that you have two choices to go forward: 1. Ignore any advanced users and make all focus on making it dead simple to setup and get the device to play, decrease the price and put all focus on selling it on the mass market. In this section you are going to compete with devices that also can do video and you are going to compete with other internet radio devices that a cheaper than the current Squeezebox products. 2. Start focusing on enhancing the listening experience and compete with other audio only devices like Sonos and new devices from HiFi manufacturers. At the moment it feels like you are in some middle area between these and I'm personally not sure there is a long term market in that area. I'm sure I'll personally switch to devices focused at 2 as soon as they catch up and pass the Squeezebox in functionality. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) (Install my plugins through Extension Downloader) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library, Title Switcher and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72512 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
