sydsfloyd67;511696 Wrote:
>
> Well, it's unfortunate that the SB3 cannot/will never be able to load
> (or even save) a custom configuration however small without connecting
> to a server. I'm not sure whether or not it would be feasible for a user
> community to establish some alternative web hosting sites that would
> allow at least some (or even a great deal of) user customization beyond
> the mysqueezebox.com's 'Favorites' menu and handful of app
> installations. If so, I'd think it would have happened already, given
> the problems reported here with the SN->MSB. Perhaps it wasn't
> previously clear that 'mysqueezebox.com' would not develop more quickly
> (for example in what has been done with Plugins with SS).
There is nothing stoping you from doing that.
Again, the only special thing about MySB is that it's in the menu.
I don't see a motivation for that, though. Those who have the
experience to set up a multiuser SB Server have their own servers: why
would they pay the costs of a server for other people? Then they would
also have to sign content deals with Napster, Rhapsody, Pandora, etc..
That's a whole lot of work, and I don't really see an income stream
there to make it worth the trouble. It's not a big deal for logitech
who already have a toehold ("Hi, we have contracts with your
competition, do you want to have us use you as a content provider,
too?"), but would be very painful for a startup.
>
> Does the Touch then perhaps have the hardware needed to first allow and
> then and save configurations between restarts (say a URL list of 12
> favorites, and a display tweek or 2 beyond firmware)? Thereby
> eliminating the need for additional Server connections at every start
> after an initial setup? If so, too bad they somehow lost the supply of
> displays for a 'Classic II'.
>
The Touch runs a 'tiny' version of SBS if you add storage to it. (A
USB thumb drive would suffice.)
So, yes, it can connect to net radio stations without an -additional-
server. It would be wrong to say without a server: since it is running
a server.
The SBS has a far faster CPU, more RAM and more flash, as well as a USB
connection for external storage (ie, if you don't want to use a PC as a
server, go get a huge USB hard drive and store your music on that, and
plug it into the Touch).
A 'classic II' would, in order to accomplish what you want, need: more
memory, faster CPU, more flash, USB connection...
Ie, it would be a touch with a VFD display. But I bet the touch-lcd
display is -cheaper- than the VFD was (economies of scale: LCD displays
are cheap, even as touch screens -- think of the millions of phones made
every year). So, really, it would, well, be a Touch.
The touch -is- the next step in the SB1/2/3 line.
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