------------------------------------------------------------------------ A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73698 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Question: Is third party plugins/applets important for your Squeezebox purchases ? - I won't buy any more Squeezebox products unless support for third party development is prioritized - I won't buy any more Squeezebox products unless the third party plugins I rely on is supported - I use third party plugins but I would still consider buying more Squeezebox products without them - I don't use third party plugins so they aren't important to my Squeezebox purchases ------------------------------------------------------------------------
ModelCitizen;504389 Wrote: > Mr SnarlyDwarf. > What a very great post. I wish I'd written it myself. However, if > Logitech do intend to support third party plugin writers after the Touch > is released I think it would be wise of them to let "the community" > (sic) know sooner rather than later. Otherwise there won't be any third > party left and they'll be left flogging cheap short-term Facebook crap. > Oh, I'm sure they do. (Though probably not many on TinySC... the CPU/RAM could be a real issue for complex plugins.) 'tis why I wish that Andy or Mickey or Michael or Ben or Caleb or, actually, any of the SB team could give 3rd party developers and aside that they really do understand. (Actually, Michael has been pretty good on that, but I get a feel that he's feeling 'leashed' about what he can and cannot say.) > > Erland and a lot of other 3rd party developers provide essential > functionality without which Logitech could not sell SBs. There's lots of > 3rd party code even in the core product. > And most of those contributors are in a less favorable situation than I > am because I can at least make some money with iPeng which helps around > some frustrations. Oh, I get that completely. Hence my comment about the irony of using MusicInfoSCR on the Boom packaging and probably elsewhere. 3rd party plugins are so essential that the marketing people use them without even knowing it. 3rd party fixes (someone is actually working on fixes to the Radio's alarm code) are also essential. Other than 'stop changing the API every two weeks' (it seems that 7.5 hasn't made serious changes to the API at least), I don't know what the solution is here... Is it more "we need to actually come up with a proper API, and allow more places for plugins to hook themselves in" or something else? 'FIX IT' is all well and good, but... fix what? How? What support is it that you need, that you feel is lacking? Is it because people have no time as they bury themselves in code trying to figure out what makes the WMA decoder barf? Or is it something else? -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73698 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
