squeez-er;495158 Wrote: > The fact that something is old is a bad excuse to make something new. I > don't care if it's old - I only care if it works. And it does exactly > what I want from my wifi music player to do - play music and show what's > playing even when I'm further away. It may be a bad excuse, but that's the basic MO for consumer capitalism. Old models are constantly replaced by new models. Sometimes the newer models are better, sometimes not. For electronics a common pattern is to keep the same price point and add features/capacity. If you like your SB3 and think you might want more, buy them now.
squeez-er;495158 Wrote: > - USB input: this is a basic function for any music player these days, > and kinda goes against the whole idea of networked music player I think you still don't quite understand the feature. Plug an external USB drive with your music library into the SB Touch and it appears on your network as a shared network drive, and all of the music is available to the Touch and any other SB in the house. How does this go "...against the whole idea of networked music player"? squeez-er;495158 Wrote: > - Controller for other players: I have never had multiple SB's so can't > comment much about this.. Can't you already control all SB's through > web-interface? And if you have different music playing on different > rooms, it would be kinda pointless to control them from somewhere else > than the room in question. Yes, you can control them through the web ui, if you want to be sitting at your computer while listening to music. I would say the whole idea of SBs is to get the user away from the computer. I have ~10 SBs and don't find it at all 'pointless' to control players from a different room. I usually do it from within the same room, but not always. Also, I am sure that some people won't even connect the SB Touch directly to their audio system at all, and instead use it exclusively for controlling other players. At least one of the other beta testers has said as much, and one of the Logitech staff has posted photos of his wall-mounted SB Touch that acts only as a controller. Seems like a waste of good audio outputs to me, but that's what works in their settings. squeez-er;495158 Wrote: > The fact that I now need to pay much more for things I don't need still > remains however. 300 euros is right on the edge of being WAY too much > for a device like SB's. This whole thing actually started when I > considered giving SB as a christmas present and then noticed the price > difference (not to mention the fact that right now I can't buy a > Squeezebox without speakers at all!). But as always, this is just my > opinion. You can't find an SB3 at any retailers? What about eBay? Last I looked there were quite a few. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72534 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
