This statement is bizzare ! " > So you confirm that in its current state, this product cannot be > suitable for wide audience, without dedicated computer aware staff to > install and support the system. > With the price it costs, which may exceed the devices price, does it ? > > Otherwise they have to stick to very basic use (streaming internet > radios for example), which is most customers do.
" People have computers and people have wifi and network and routers BEFORE adding a squeezebox to it . And have been ripping CD's before for use on their PC . Or frankly been stealing tons of files with p2p software for ages. You are implying that so called normal people can't operate their own computers (install a program, for example squeezeboxserver) . Nor can they use their own router or add clients to their own network (for example follow the instructions on a Radio/Touch to make it connect ) And the the impossible task of putting a CD in the "cup holder" . And you deliberately misinterpret parts of what shaboyi tries to tell us. An observation , custom installs is not for for everyone these kind of clients obviously have money and are not at all interested in some diy to make this fly, they have more profitable things to do with their busy life. A person with more time than money can do this for himself, with some care it actually works. People are not imbeciles I have observed them driving cars operating heavy machinery using computers in their work etc. Regarding "very basic use" Many people would be quite satisfied with just a spotify or pandora machine , not all people have music collections these days or if you are uniterested in sq you find it faster on spotify than in your own CD pile anyway . Streaming services is the great time saver for non hifi people , the hours I spent tinkering with the system pales in comparison to the time used to rip thousands of CD's . I think someone only wanting the "very basic use" of streaming service realize this, a couple of hours on a weekend wasted but you suddenly saves 100's of hours not having to rip your scratched cd's and what about the warped vinyl and old cassettes . And there is of-course problems a lot of them , but the basic architecture is ok . A problem some won't admitt to is the "unreliable scanning" is in reality that all the files you downloaded with p2p are tagged by cretins, such a collection would of-course be a horrible mess and not usable by any other way than "music folder" it often looks very odd in album or artist ;) -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91532 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
