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moos_man wrote: > Hi cliveb, > > All great points, and I tend to agree with them. The question of own > music vs services is an interesting one. I would envisage supporting > very high quality playback of music stored on your local server(s) at up > to 24bit/192kHz (which you can readily buy these days), but would also > have to continue supporting, and even expand the cloud service > offerings. > > I terms of services, moving away from current model of all services > going though a cloud portal and back into a plugin mode is a possibility > - there are pros/cons to this, but both ways are workable in my opinion. > I have a fair bit of experience in this as I was a co-founder of a > company which did a bunch of deals with the likes of > Rhapsody/Pandora/etc - company shall remain unnamed for the purpose of > this discussion :) The point here is that a re-vamped product range - if > it was to go ahead - would, in my view, focus on both very high quality > local playback and a rich set of services, hopefully providing the best > of both worlds at reasonable price points. I think one issue both slim devices and Logitech faced regarding services was encryption and other secret "handshakes" the providers do not trust this to be on a open source server. Thus a cloud service was there to proxy and provide user login , but mysqueezebox.com was closed source . The paranoid service provider could keep their secret with Logitech and we could use the service . But I assume that most service providers are not that paranoid . For example lib spotify that triodes uses , he can do that without problems ( I assume ). So a modiefied proposal is to actually require local server and only use a cloud server for stuff that could not be done in any other way, this would be a much lighter versions as the local servers do most of the work ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96660 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
