jp73 wrote: > Is any of you guys in contact with any of the original people from slim > devices ? Do they know what Logitech is doing to 'their' system ?
Dean Blackketter is on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/blackketter. Sean Adams is there too but it doesn't look like he keeps his profile up-to-date. Let's be realistic, people. The idea of a dedicated music player is not a mass-market item anymore--people are far more interested in set-top boxes that happen to do music. With high-end receivers doing built-in AirPlay or direct reading of CIFS shares for music management, the dedicated device is less relevant. And Sonos may have the market and mind share at this point. At any rate, I think the best way forward for the Slim Devices platform would be a hardware-based server (Raspberry Pi?) with a high-end audio stage built out of it. Make sure the device is as open source as possible, and will be fully compatible with the open source LMS. There's no practical way the IP3K players could be made open source (although a lot can be done with their current firmware, which is pretty much mature and stable). The Touch could probably have some open source development, and perhaps a new device even more directly based on the Touch hardware (without violating Logitech's patents or copyrights). Touch technology is already 3-4 years old and a new device could benefit from hardware advances. I could see an audiophile manufacturer taking up the cause, perhaps one of the existing Squeezebox customizers, but this again would basically be reinventing the Slim Devices idea, probably at a higher price point. And of course things like SqueezePlayer, SqueezeSlave, and iPeng are important to the platform moving foward. At that point the important thing is maintaining the Slim protocol and ensuring new servers and clients can be developed to it. --Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mrfantasy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1127 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96213 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
