bits;696479 Wrote:
>
> In a dream world the Squeezebox would be a connection hub. erland wants
> USB which I dont care for, others will want the line in for their random
> devices, I would like Bluetooth personally if anything, I'm sure many
> will want an iPod dock.
>
Just to be clear, I don't want USB connection, I'm a geek, I'm using my
24/7 server.
However, I do think the mass market needs a multi-room solution, and
currently the situation is:
- Sonos is too expensive
- Squeezebox is too geeky
- No other big vendor provides something that works
The alternative that do exist for these users are iOS/Android phones
and a docking station with speakers in all the rooms in the house,
where you bring the phone (which contains the music) to the room you
want to listen in. Lack of synchronized playback is not an issue for
mass market, and by moving the phone to the right docking station they
can listen to the music in all rooms.
The mass market users likely have their music on either a laptop or a
tablet/phone or both, they don't own a stationary computer.
So the mass market (not me) need a solution that either:
- Can get the music from where it is (on smart phone/tablet or
laptop).
or
- Can be the media server where the music is stored and offers it to
all other devices that want to use it.
However, I need the Squeezebox to survive, and the only way I can see
that happen is if Logitech is earning good money on it, and Logitech
knows how to sell to mass market users but I doubt that they know how
to sell to geeks.
--
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).
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(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=656713) project.
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