Much of internet radios problems is in it's multitude of everything from streaming quality to a plethora of formats apps and streaming aggregatetors broadcasters and whatnot . Sometimes working against there user interest and revert to obscure formats only usable from a pc , or by constantly shift url to something else .
Constanly shifting URL should be a crime There are at least 10000's of stations playing "greatests hit's" or "dance music" why ? there is so much repetition . Helping users to wade trough that and locate the content of interest would be the mission statement Talk radio and pods is it any better, not gotten i to that yet . Make squeezebox a better podcast player bookmark and resume anyone ? If you build a meta service it should not only aggregate and present. mysqueezebox.com does that but in 1/100 of the speed needed to keep up with the development, why not present a new app/service every week. The apps should be better . Example Triode surpased logitechs spotify implemetation on his sparetime ? Try the shoutcast app, every time I try to use it has crashed in some new funny way. But a greater goal would be to traverse *all* apps and services a user subcribes to and get the content presented in a user friendly way in a consistent UI . If I want to listen to science podcasts or have some "party music with the latest electronica" I don't really care for if the playlist is aggregated from 758 different providers. Or if I want to hear "Blues" mysqueezebox.com should use be able to find in everywhere in all my services and radio stations and make sugestions . mysqueeezebox.com should of-course learn my preferences and eventually be able to smartly present things I might be interested in. Ofcourse in a user friendly fashion. Improvement of their own phone/pad app could be great for mysqueezebox.com only users . Why not global settings ? I would like to able to filter out any radio channel <128kbs if it music and <64k if it is talk and make it prefer higher bitrates and put those on top in the searches. -- 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
