erland;645213 Wrote: > 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. > > > 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.
I was talking first about the solution with a computer. So it supposes the computer is on. The fact is a lot of people use popular software like foobar, mediamonkey, Jriver. If you support those software adding a simple plugin, all this already existing market opens up, without forcing users to choose one specific software, namely SBS, which most of them won't accept (Nobody likes to be tied to one specific software) At least, with a dev toolkit, the community of each of those software opens up as soon as a plugin is available for this software. Some of them are much better than SBS. In my opinion, this market is much bigger than the total squeezebox existing users. So focusing on that, allowing people to use Squeezeboxes without SBS (for those who already have a computer on to listen music) is something straightforward. I only talked about the possibility of computing the TinySBS database on a PC just as a workaround for people who bought the Touch for TinySBS, and discovered that it cannot work because scan it too slow. I never said you must suppress the possibility to scan or add new music directly in TinySBS without computer. Another thing, I think you haven't understood the MASSIVE difference between SBS and TinySBS. SBS is developped for a bunch of OS platforms. This means limitations because functionalities must be implemented for all platforms (this leads to severe performance drawbacks or very complicated specific platforms parallel developments) This means QA and testing team totally unachievable by a company like Logitech (hardware company, not software company) TinySBS is developped for Logitech internal proprietary hardware. This means you can forget almost any crossplatform development. QA and tests are WAY EASIER and cheaper You can tune the software as you like to improve performance. You can get rid of very negative effects of being part of SBS which must run on Windows, OSX, various Linux flavors -- nicolas75 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nicolas75's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15823 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89143 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
