JadeMonkee;364362 Wrote: > Not a bad idea... a more simple solution than a NAS or a low-power > server (or any dedicated server, for that matter), and a Squeezebox > music server would be far more preferable (at least to me) than an > iTunes one, as I dislike almost everything about iTunes, and need > support for flac and ogg.
To me this sounds like the only missing piece in the Logitech arsenal, but obviously offering a home server unit is a whole can of worms, which moves way beyond music. Like you I have a readynas, but ultimately built another unit so I could run MusicIP, which has been well worth the effort BTW. Slim and Readynas had high hopes for this before their respective buyouts, but ultimately the original Readynas has a too puny of a CPU to do Squeezecenter justice. The new Readynas architecture would work better, especially now the 7.3 has a plugin installer, but I don't think the companies have the same relationship any more. As for the original point of the thread, if the ultimate goal of Logitech is to get people to run Squeezecenter and buy into the hardware which subsidizes the development then I don't see how catering to people who buy into a completely different system (itunes) helps at all. Even if there's a short term uptick in sales, they're ultimately undermining their main product. I used a number of other music streaming devices, before I finally went all Squeezecenter a couple of months ago, and the more you mix systems the less you get out of Squeezecenter. All systems seem to interpret tags differently, and moving playlists between systems is always a pain. I think the best solution is for Logitech to continue what they've been doing and that is to offer everyone more ways to access Squeezecenter from as many devices as possible, while saving the best integration for their devices. I'd like to see a better computer software client, which should be here with 7.3, and hopefully a gateway to transfer music to portable devices someday. -- sander ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sander's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10737 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55543 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
