First of all, if adding support for pictures and videos wasn't enough to change version numbers to 8.0 nothing is going to be, so it's going to be called 7.8, we will never reach 8.0.
Regarding priorities: 1. Stability and bugfixes This should go into 7.7.x and should be the primarily focus in the near future, since 7.5.x it has been less stable and more bugs for every new release, this needs to change. I would personally not like any work on 7.8 to be started this year, I think the ideal situation would be to focus on stability and bugfixes in 7.7.x during the rest of this year. It's not likely going to be that way, but it's still on the top of my wishlist. 2. Third party API's for pictures/videos/UPnP: With the limited resources Logitech have they need to take advantage of third party developers to be able to offer as much as possible. Currently pictures, videos and UPnP is extremely closed for third parties, basically anyone that wants to add anything need to re-implement everything. - Support for adding extra browsing menus/information in UPnP interface: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17613 - Support for adding extra metadata to images and pictures through plugins - Support for adding extra browsing menus in ImageViewer through plugins - ... 3. Playback support in Revue Add support in Revue to act as a real Squeezebox, basically something similar as bluegaspode's Android Squeeze Player app that already exist. We might get this through bluegaspode but getting it from Logitech will make it harder for Logitech to drop support for mysqueezebox.com and LMS anytime soon. Ideally, Logitech should just create a partnership with bluegaspode to get this quickly and to a reasonable price, but I guess that's not likely going to happen as they seems to prefer to do everything themselves. Playback support in Revue might not seem important but I really think it is, primarily because it will make the old Squeezebox devices be supported a bit longer and hopefully long enough to make someone at Logitech (outside the development team) to understand their potential. 4. Support for new streaming/cloud services Even though some people doesn't like it, supporting the latest streaming services is very important as it's something new users look at when deciding what to purchase. Some examples (not according to priority) would be Google Music, iCloud (probably not possible), Amazon Cloud Drive, Best Buy Music Cloud, SoundCloud, Grooveshark, Mixcloud and others which I don't remember at the moment. 5. Integration between music and pictures/videos In the current software music, pictures and videos feels like three completely separate things, we need to bring these together. This is partly related to the artwork thing already mentioned but it's a lot more. I want to be able to link artist photos and music videos to an artist, album or track. The issue with this is of course, as usual, that it requires a paradigm change that we can't consider the database volatile and something that can be completely deleted without loosing any information, so the chance of this happening is likely pretty slim. The best way to accomplish this is probably to handle it according to point 2 above (third party api's). Point 2 would be possible to take to a completely different level by releasing a Logitech AppStore, but I don't think this is a priority for Logitech, they probably just want to use Android Market to accomplish this on GoogleTV (Revue) instead of building one on their own. I'm not mentioning support for Touch II and Boom II because I don't think any of them is likely to happen anytime soon, it's a lot bigger chance we will get a Revue II. -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets (both free and commercial)' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland). If you like to encourage future presence on this forum and/or third party plugin/applet development, 'consider purchasing some plugins' (http://license.isaksson.info)) Interested in music discovery ? See 'Social Music Discovery (SMD)' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=656713) project. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91298 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
