Nojelc;627653 Wrote: > As an aside it makes we wonder why SbS does not come with a Player as > standard. I would have thought it would be a reasonable common > requirement to play audio from the PC you run SbS on, controlling > output from the web interface. I agree that can be confusing for new users, but one fairly obvious reason is that they don't make any money on the software, only on the hardware. A second is that with very scarce development resources, they don't have the time/people to support any of the software players, all of which are either 3rd party contributions or perpetual beta. Third, for a lot of users the idea of SB is to play music _away_ from the computer. Why bundle a player with the server software when (a) many people aren't interested, and (b) it's easy to download separately?
The last point also pertains to SB's cross-platform nature. For example, in my case, when I want a software player it's usually on Windows or Maemo (Nokia N800). But my SBS is on debian Linux, so a bundled player probably wouldn't be useful anyway. Vortexbox came with an integral player because it's designed to be a straight-out-of-the-box solution. The VBA people also make their money on hardware, not software, and including squeezeplay in the distro allows them to market the VBA as a player as well as a server. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87245 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
