------------------------------------------------------------------------ A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96660 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Question: Would you buy a new Squeezebox player if it became available? - Yes , if less than $100 - Yes, if less than $200 - Yes, if less than $500 - Yes, if less than $1000 - Yes - price is no object; I just want the best sound - No - I would NOT buy another Squeezebox player ------------------------------------------------------------------------
cliveb wrote: > I haven't voted because the option I would vote for is not there - I > would buy another Squeezebox player under $500, but only to replace one > of my existing players if it dies. > > > I don't really see what IPR there is that Logitech actually own and is > worth buying. What "rights" are you hoping to buy that you can't get for > free? If you are thinking of starting up a business building hardware > players, you already have all the data you need: Squeezebox Server is > open source; SlimProto is in the public domain. > > The Squeezebox ecosystem is either going to die or refresh itself as a > community effort. Plenty of hobbyists are experimenting with running > Squeezeplay and/or Squeezeslave on cheap commodity devices like the > Raspberry Pi, hoping to drive USB DACs for good sound quality. We're not > there yet, but pretty soon someone will succeed. If you are thinking of > building new hardware players, you will be in competition with that, so > I can't see how there is a business case for manufacturing new hardware > players. Hi cliveb, OK - great feedback, thanks. I totally get the hobbyist angle wrt running on cheap commodity hardware - I myself own 3 high quality DACs and a bunch of embedded Linux platforms. The real question is whether Squeezebox as an ecosystem will not just survive but grow in a hobbyist/hacker-only form (I use the term hobbyist/hacker with greatest respect here!). It seems to me that one of the brilliant things about the original Slim product was very nice integration - it was not a bunch of DIY assembly boards for hackers, but a really neat little box with a very high wife/girlfriend acceptance factor. It is true that there was a lot of open source effort inside the box, but overall the package was a complete product which people were buying, until recently. BTW - Given that Logitech paid a reasonable amount of money for Slim, there were likely to be various rights involved (brand name is one example, though I suspect there is more). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ moos_man's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=57497 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96660 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
