>> Okay, more flexibility would be lovely. But, Logitech have shown no >> interest in improving the UI to be more flexible, and in effect have a >> higher maintenance cost. You are not interested in paying more money >> for such functionality and think you should just get it for free for >> some reason. It's unlikely to happen. > >what a joke. first of all, logitech needs to be interested in selling >more units, not only to new customers, but to me as well. just b/c i, >like most people, don't want to pay for software upgrades doesn't mean >they don't need to do them. this is THEIR business model, and they >realize that they have to have competitive software. > They sell hardware. They need new hardware to sell to make money. If there were new hardware, they could enhance the software, and we would get enhanced software for free, but it would be driven by what it needs to do to support new hardware facilities, more than anything else.
I don't like it either, in that with more/different hardware, there's generally more bugs that creep into the existing features, or features get dropped. New software doesn't always mean it will be better. I'd prefer to see more bug fixes, robustness, rather than new non-music features (such as Twitter support, making picture slideshows on Touch screen, etc. iTunes/iPod software is like this too. There are newer versions of iTunes, but generally driven to support new hardware (iPhone, iPad, etc), or to support paid-for music downloads. I think iTunes/iPod software is getting progressively worse in some areas. [I don't generally use iTunes for music playback - but mostly for podcasts, which it is very good for managing.] >there are lots of alternative out there that right now could do just >about everything except syncing as well as logitech does. > I think there's a lot more plusses than just sync support. There's music format support (plays just about anything that isn't copy-protected). There's third-party plugin support, which frankly is the one big thing that other products don't have at all, that keeps the Squeezebox range fresh. >thats why i was so glad to see DLNA server support, (regardless of the >reason) b/c i think it could breathe some life back into this thing. > DLNA offers only basic support for playing/controlling playback, I think. It's not going to offer much, other than a standard for offering basic support to other devices, such as NAS, etc. Is it really going to breathe life back into the product range? Will it make much difference to average consumers looking for a purchase? I'm not sure it offers anything new, really. >it NEEDS to improve! > We would like it to improve; there's always room for improvement. I still feel it is ahead of the competition. >i already have talked to erland about this on PM days ago, ask him. > That's good. >but more over i don't want to use plugins, and erland has said in the >past he won't support them forever. > Plugins will continue to work for the SBS version installed. It's only if you want to upgrade SBS that you need to worry about plugin upgrades. And to be honest, you're more likely to see the sort of things you are requesting from third-party plugins than from Logitech SBS software improvements. I've been more interested in plugins than most things that have been added/removed/changed from SBS over the last couple of years. >look, i am not saying SBS needs to emulate winamp or itunes, all i am >saying is that right now it currently sucks. > And I'm not saying that SBS is perfect - it could be improved to offer more flexibility, etc. But I think it's not right to say it sucks. So okay, lets agree that it's somewhere in the middle. _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
