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radish;334986 Wrote: > Well, all I can say is thank god someone is making a product for those > of us who aren't scared of a little complexity and want a more > sophisticated & capable product. I don't see an issue with making a > product that isn't for everyone, as long as it's profitable (which it > clearly is). um, yeah, what he said :-). I think the whole idea of trying to run squeezecenter on a NAS ...questionable. A NAS is just that, a NAS. It is NOT a general purpose device that you can load whatever you want on it. You can get one of those...it is called a PC. Having a box with an SB3 display on front that is a ripping station/file server/squeeze server is a cool idea. I'm not sure that "average joe" would be willing to pay what it would cost to purchase such a device. Yeah, the hardware could be picked from off-the-shelf PC parts. However, the real expense is integrating the software pieces together and creating that streamlined user experience. You couldn't just collect rippers and taggers and put them on a machine and say you are done - that would just be a PC with pre installed software. The rippers and taggers and encoders would have to be written, debugged, and allowed to mature. Then the entire user experience would have to be designed in detail to make a relatively complex task simple. And ALL error scenarios (of which anybody here can attest to - there are MANY) have to be handled gracefully: How do you handle a disk that won't rip successfully? What about a disc whose tracks cannot be tagged because the disc is not included in the online database? How do you handle classical music tagging? Various Artist tagging? These are issues that are still debated today amongst users inside and outside the SD community. Then there's artwork. How to you validate from an SB3 display that you've downloaded the correct cover art? Suppose I don't have Internet access, what then? I don't mean to be sour grapes as I think it is a great idea. I just don't think the solution is as simple as many think nor would the cost of such a device be as reasonable as some might think. -- maggior Rich --------- Setup: 2 SB3s, 1 duet. SuSE 10.2 Server running SqueezeCenter 7.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43198 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
