Mnyb;696501 Wrote:
> They need to work with the NAS vendors so that more offer
> Squeezeboxserver/LMS in their add ins .
>
How many of your non technical friends own a NAS ?
I agree it's a perfect solution, if the NAS is powerful enough, but
most normal people don't have a NAS and won't buy one because they
don't understand what it is and why they need it.
It would be a lot easier to to sell a "Music box" to them that store,
play and offer the music to other devices on the network, because then
they buy something directly offers them something. Of course, a "Music
box" can just be a NAS with a "Music box" label on it.
Mnyb;696501 Wrote:
>
> upnp/dlna is simply not good enough .
>
> In a dream world there would be a "super dlna standard" and every one
> could just pick and match media players and UI front ends and servers
> however they wanted and shop just any NAS .
>
One problem with DLNA is that it's too generic, so you basically need
to test it and adjust it for each device you like to support.
The other problem is that it's concept of having the logic related to
current playlist on the remote control is flawed. Works great if the
remote control is ethernet connected and always on when you are playing
music, like in a TV, but it doesn't work if the remote control can be
suddenly turned off or disconnected like on a tablet or phone.
Mnyb;696501 Wrote:
>
> The background problem is that streaming media and internet radio and
> services is a bit imature .
>
> And strong actors like Apple are creating their own de-facto standards
> and have large monopolies of their own .
>
It is a bit worrying that all major actors (Apple, Google, Amazon)
provide a music store and cloud storage which only can be accessed by
their own devices. We might end up in a situation where most mass
market users doesn't have the music locally in the house, they have it
all in a cloud, which Logitech devices doesn't have access to.
Mnyb;696501 Wrote:
>
> I don't see a really simple and user friendly products as long as the
> media situation is a mess .
>
> And what about bying and downloading content to a media server outside
> iTunes ?
>
My feeling has always been that the major missing part in the
Squeezebox concept is the electronic music store. The alternative with
streaming services like Spotify, Rhapsody, Napster covers part of the
hole but the fact is still the some people want to buy their music. I
realize it's unrealistic for Logitech to build a music store, but it
still feels like the missing part to me.
For people that want to buy their music, and does that through a
Google, Amazon, Apple device, it's going to feel like an unnecessary
extra step to copy/move the music to make it accessible by a Logitech
device, soon they will realize that it's more user friendly to just
play it on the Google, Amazon, Apple devices even though their feature
set isn't optimal.
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