The main issue throughout this thread is one that has been discussed God knows how many times in these forums, mainly along the lines that if one is a geek, go for Squeezebox; if not try Sonos or others.
Speaking purely for myself, I've long thought that view to be well off the mark. The average under 25 these days is extremely tech savvy, perfectly happy to download and use apps for their smartphones etc, so to suggest they can't cope with SBS/LMS software is ridiculous. Equally, for those who treat their music seriously, it is not a problem as they tend to know what they want, and do the research accordingly. So we are left with the large percentage of people who either can't be bothered, or are genuinely happy with inferior products. For that last group, why would they be interested in wifi players at all. If they're happy with an ithingy dock playing aac files,then who are we to criticise? So this brings us on to who Squeezeboxes should be aimed at, how to make them more user friendly, and how to market them. Personally, I've thought for a long time that Logitech have missed a trick by not having their own branded version of a vortebox. A box that can rip and tag accurately,with a stable linux version of SBS/LMS preinstalled, and perhaps a 250 GB HD could be pretty cheap if produced in bulk, and could be offered as a bundle with the Touch.I certainly wish I had heard of Vortebox BEFORE I ripped/tagged and added cover art to all my cds. I also think it's incorrect/unhelpful to state that mediamonkey ( for example) is years ahead of LMS/SBS. I used to use mediamonkey in my pre SBS days, and I certainly don't miss it. The name SBS kind of gives it away really.It's primarily a SERVER, and as far as I'm concerned it does that rather well. Having said that, things can always be improved,can they not? Regards, Trev -- gruntwolla Debian sheeva plug running sbs 7.5.4 SB3 + my hifi Duet + AE5's 2 Booms 1 Radio Squeezecommander on htc desire ipeng on wifes iphone ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gruntwolla's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35645 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91532 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
