castalla wrote: > > At the very least, Tunein should be independent of mysb.com. As far as > I know, Tunein on other systems is not dependent on a 3rd party > connection? > It's not a problem to have third party streaming services depending on a central cloud server, if the software isn't maintained it doesn't matter if it's installed on your local device/computer or in a central cloud server, if it isn't maintained it will stop working either way. A local Tunein plugin which isn't working wouldn't be any better than a non working Tunein module on a central server.
The general issue with many streaming services is that you aren't allowed to publish any details of their API, in many cases you have to sign a NDA to get access to the API, Tunein is one example of this. So if it's installed locally it would likely have to be a closed source module which is still maintained by Logitech and if that stops working due to a Tunein API change and Logitech doesn't want to fix it we wouldn't be in any better situation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97012 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
