woodster wrote: > > Have tried ickstream, but this is an online service as well, that might > get shut down. It could be nice if the native apps e.g wimp could be run > from the local lms. > I have my local music, but can't avoid using online streaming, and need > to be sure to have a long term solution. >
I believe to a certain degree that misses the point. Sure, the ickStream online service needs to be available but face it: the biggest issue is that you need someone to permanently maintain these implementations or they will quickly break. Just have a look at the YouTube plugin, SqueezeCloud plugin etc. And that requirement doesn't go away with an implementation in a local plugin. Someone needs to work on these things on a regular base, that's the restriction. Just look at how much work it currently is to migrate iPlayer to the new protocols used by the BBC. WiMP also completely changed their protocol years ago and the Logitech implementation still uses the old one AFAIK, if WiMP ever shuts that down it would require a complete rewrite, too. For a local plugin one could argue that others than the original author could take over and in some cases this has worked but especially YouTube is a good example of a case where it clearly didn't. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 8, the Universal App for iOS 7 and iOS 8* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103210 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
