------------------------------------------------------------------------ A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88915 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Question: Why recommend someone to get a Squeezebox ? - Its excellent audio quality - Best price/performance on the market - Excellent hardware/software quality of the whole solution - Great support for online streaming services - Great support for browsing and playing local music - The possiblity to extend it to multiple rooms later on - Its support for third party plugins - The possibility to directly interact with Logitech regarding new features/bugs - This community and forum - I wouldn't recommend a Squeezebox to anyone ------------------------------------------------------------------------
garym;642901 Wrote: > I setup a boom and touch for my brother, with a 50,000 mp3 library > connected to touch via usb drive running internal "tiny" SbS. No > problems a year later and he doesn't have a clue how any of this > works. > > I set up a boom for an 85+ year old woman connected via mysb.com. No > problems almost a year later. And again, she just hits the power button > and presets. When firmware updates hit, she has to hit a few keys, but > somehow, she has done this without even calling me. > > In both cases they have robust networks and both are using wifi for > everything. Please, when you keep telling the story of your brother, you should also tell a little more, because normal people won't ever use it this way. Only mp3, never turn it off nor disconnect the drive, never add one single file (!!!), which is what you finally stated once after a lot of questions (I was quite surprised he never had a problem, but with this informations, it explains a lot ...) Logitech is not selling computers servers for dummies, who would be supposed to have a computer aware guy available to install, manage, and support the thing. Squeezebox products are not professional systems sold to companies where there is a dedicated technical team so that normal users don't need to install, understand, and support the system. You can make them work, I can make them work, geek can make them work. It seems to me a bit unfair to let people think that it works flawlessly, and they probably did something wrong. Squeezeboxes are great, but the software is not user friendly, it is not stable, it is not reliable, and it is not tailored for normal people who are not playing with computers. It is a very bad to let people think otherwise if we don't want Logitech to drop this product line. -- nicolas75 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nicolas75's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15823 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88915 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
