Skunk;356241 Wrote: > > To me the important thing is audio functionality, reliability, etc. - > and all the skin stuff is secondary. Not that there won't be good ones > to come.
I'm sorry, but -usability- is up there on my list of important features. I'm not one for skins, but i expect the base UI to be good. Squeezeplay UI was designed for a single use Controller, which is held one handed and it's only input is via a scroll wheel and a few transport buttons. As a Controller its fantastic, on a PC with a keyboard and mouse and operating system it becomes a bit 'toy' like and not much fun - i feel very restricted compared to using, say, Foobar2000. Hence I use Microsoft Word for writing documents, not an emulation of my Mobile phone's SMS imput. I see no reason to use it as my primary media player, i can't see many will. The value for me would be headless anyway, so i could controller my PC audio with the controller from another room and syncing up - hopefully that will get sorted. I'm a huge Slim fan and love there products, they bring me a great deal of pleasure and i must have recommend their kit to 1,000's of people - but i'm not a fan of Squeezeplay PC version - -not yet-, anyway. TBH, i was not a huge fan of Softsqueeze either - but at least it emulated a player, rather than a Controller (which was also audio capable, but still first and foremost a Controller). -- autopilot *Lounge :* Squeezebox Classic -> Cambridge Audio Azur 640a -> Mission 701's. *Bedroom :* Squeezebox Receiver -> Trends TA10.1 Class-T -> Kef Cresta 1's *Office :* Softsqueeze -> Logitech Active 5.1's. *Kitchen :* Squeezebox Boom -coming soon- *Roaming : * Squeezebox Controller -> Logitech mm28 portable speakers / Shure E2c's *Controllers :* Squeezebox Controller x 2 + Logitech Harmony one *Server :* SC7.3b (Vista 64) + AlienBBC, iPlayer & MusicIP headless. 'LAST.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/domrevans/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ autopilot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1763 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54577 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
