nicolas75;645205 Wrote:
> You would obviously need a PC to control Squeezeboxes with popular
> software plugins.
> What I mean is that
>
> - developping SBS LMS for Linux (not speaking about Touch hardware,
> which is TinySBS, not SBS) seems pointless to me if Windows/OSX is not
> acceptable, and it is not, and developer team cannot face all that. So
> if you really want to develop SBS/LMS, focus on Windows, may be OSX if
> you can afford it, don't care about Linux (speaking about SBS, not
> TinySBS)
>
> - I think that the best solution with a computer on would be to forget
> about LMS/SBS (computer is required, I am not speaking about TinySBS),
> but work out a dev toolkit to use popular and successful softwares,
> Squeezebox being some kind of "smart ethernet soundcard" of great
> quality.
>
The issue with your suggestion, is that when I announce it to my
friends they are going to say things like:
- But my computer is in another room, why should I have to go to
another room to change what's playing ?
- But I don't own a stationary computer, I only have the laptop from
work and that's usually in the bag
- But I don't want the laptop on the living room, it's usually powered
off in another room when I like to listen to music.
- But I don't want an external USB drive attached to my laptop and the
internal drive on my laptop is to small to contain all the music.
Honestly, I can't see any of my non geek friends being happy with a
living room music system where their computer needs to be involved. I
can see a lot of my geek friends seeing the the challenge of setting up
a cool server but they would all hate that the server had to be based on
Windows...
Oh and to make this even more clear, the only person among all my
friends who have purchased a stationary computer during the last 3
years is myself and another friend and both of us has them to run it as
a server. All the other fiends has purchased laptops and got rid of
their old stationary computers.
nicolas75;645205 Wrote:
>
> - The solution without computer is a TinySBS (no SBS, no LMS). Ok the
> hardware is not powerful enough, but if you forget about SBS/LMS, you
> can tune it better. You will have to forget geek hype and plugins, but
> the team cannot work on everything. A good thing could be to compute de
> database on a real PC with a software (scanner, nothing else) giving the
> TinySBS database on the USB device to save time.
>
Maybe you haven't understand that SBS and TinySBS is the same software,
the difference is just that you start it with some different flags to
deactivate certain modules which aren't needed when executed in TinySBS
mode.
However, I do agree that it's reasonable that when I add new music I
can create the database from the PC, because I am going to sit by the
PC when I'm downloading or ripping new music. Ideally, I would like to
do this without the PC through the Logitech Music Store (which
obviously doesn't exist yet and probably never will) but to get that
experience I probably need to turn to Apple. The database creation
software could only support Windows, that would be completely
acceptable by the majority of all Squeezebox users. Some members on
this forum would be upset, because they don't own a Windows computer,
but 90% of the Squeezebox owners have a Windows laptop or stationary
computer which they use for ripping.
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