Yes the Touch is a leap forward hardware wise very good in fact excellent hardware it exceeds my expectations by a wide margin for "SB4". It has more native formats to, less transcoding and radiostream issues. In short the upgrade we all wanted I'm getting it for the 24/96 . The tweak potential is enormous with linux onboard.
But mr dBerriff has a point. The server backend has some really weak spots even if it some instances is extremely good the basic stuff is excellent it gets your music to the player. even if you discard the cd rip/network stuff as things you have to know to have a life these day's, like being an illiterate was a major problem in when newspapers where the hot new media. I have to admit that i learned networking when i got my first SB that's because it was the first time i had more than one networked device at home. I probably had to go trough the same learning curve if got another device for another purpose so this is not an exclusive SB problem it hits whoever is "first" now i'm getting ip telephony too. So running cat5 and crimping contacts will be as common as connecting extension cords or changing fuse in the fuse box . Anyway you can have Music-IP if you want to but it takes serious wizardry to set up Logitech simply *must* do a system similar to appple genuis and make it a standard part of the system. Also a lot the very nice stuff erland has done for community via his excellent pluginsis a *must be standard* but in a simplified form, especially no non standard tag hacking required. And the very weak playlist creation it still not posible to edit and build playlist without a choosen player to build it on. You cant even save changes to playlist with the controller you have to scroll trough every letter and save it again The interfaces avialable are crude, a really nice playlist editor of some kind is also a *must do now* Btw I'm not an iTunes fan either I find it confusing in some spots to i'm not used to it and iTunes also have a learning curve so it's not as unitive as people wants to believe, but it is the first player many ever sees and expects everything else to be like that. -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- No it can NOT be controlled with iTunes.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67399 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
