iPhone;594850 Wrote: > What is the big deal with 7.6? All this development should stop. The > point is to get to 8.0. Yes working up through the 7's is a means of > doing that. But at this point if 7.5.2 is that far away and 7.6 > production is nowhere close, why not put all efforts into 8.0 and let > 7.5.1 ride it out until 8.0 is released? > IMHO, the big deal with 7.6 is: - SQLite support (which makes it possible to use same server version for desktop and built-in server on Touch and also improves the scanning speed) - Improved performance of artwork handling - The UPnP server stuff Andy is working on which probably would make it possible to use Logitech Revue and other UPnP/DNLA players with SBS. - Other things I don't remember at the moment
I also hoped for some new API's for third party development for browsing(onebrowser work) and scanning(third party scanner hooks) and third party api for Touch Now Playing screen, but I'm honestly not sure those are going to be included in 7.6. I suppose it depends on if 7.6 is planned for early 2011 or late 2011. I'd prefer to get a stable 7.6 pretty soon than have to wait for a 8.0 release 2012 or later. Long release cycles with different API's in beta and latest stable release is really frustrating from a third party development perspective, you want to make it possible for people to use the beta but you still have to support the users that prefer to use the stable release. >From a user perspective, the only of the above features that makes any difference is the UPnP stuff. However, that doesn't make any difference for people that only have Squeezebox players, it's only useful for Logitech Revue owners and owners of other UPnP players. So from a Squeezebox user perspective, I can agree that there isn't much in 7.6 that you will actually see. Most of the stuff are technical improvements which are hidden to normal users. Of course, Logitech might be working on some stuff we don't know about, the resources that haven't been producing as much as they usually do in the open SBS/SqueezePlay source code have to be working on something. iPhone;594850 Wrote: > > The real solutions seem to be in the list of 8.0 features. > I'm not sure what list you are talking about, if you are talking about the new schema and multi user stuff I think it's time we forget about that. It's not within the Logitech mass market strategy, they want less customization options and simpler system not more options and more complex system. If you want improved music exploring/discovery features I'm afraid you will have to switch product or rely on third party development, this has never been a priority and I'm pretty sure it's not going to be one any time soon. For people that accept that they have to rely on third party development, there are some work in progress in this area. I've no indication when it's going to be ready for alpha testing but it is focused on the stuff discussed in this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80910 (If anyone hasn't already answered the questions in the first post of the this thread, please do) -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland). If my answer helped you and you like to encourage future presence on this forum and/or third party plugin/applet development, 'donations are always appreciated' (http://erland.isaksson.info/donate)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83909 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
