tin wrote: > > I fail to understand why it was not possible. Sure it's not possible now > (well not quite true, but not without a giant u-turn on the part of > Logitech). > > If they had altered MSB to operate exactly the same as they want with > UE, and make a brand new squeezebox work exclusively in that mode. Or > even they could add a third "UE" mode, and again out of the box it only > works in that mode. Then it's down to the user to willingly and > knowingly decide to go into full squeezebox mode with some obscure menu > item somewhere and it only works if the thing can detect a LMS on the > network. > They probably wanted to change customer base, basically get rid of the geeks and music enthusiasts and start attracting mass market users who mainly want to listen to internet radio and don't ask for bug corrections and new features all the time. Their only problem at the moment is that the UE Smart Radio is too expensive for mass market users, so the next UE Smart Radio product needs to be a lot cheaper.
By switching platform, they have the possibility to eventually shutdown mysqueezebox.com in a few years when most Squeezebox users have moved on to UE Smart Radio or more likely to some new exciting product from someone else with similar functionality as the Squeezebox. I can't say I'm impressed of the work they have done with the UE Smart Radio so far, but it's the first iteration of a rebranded product, maybe the first real UE Smart Radio product which they are probably working on as we speak will show the full potential of their plan. tin wrote: > > If LMS is the problem, maybe it's chewing up time for people on the > payroll, turn it back over full time to open source. > All parts of LMS that can be open sourced already is open sourced. The parts that aren't open source are those which Logitech doesn't have the right to open source because the rights are owned by other companies (installer and some codecs I think) or which Logitech can't open source because it's their company identity/trademark (logos and other graphics). Except for this, mysqueezebox.com is heavily based on LMS, so even if they would let community maintain LMS they would need to handle similar changes on mysqueezebox.com themselves, so stop maintaining LMS would only get rid of parts of the problem. By the way, the UE Music Library server which is the local server used for UE Smart Radio is also heavily based on LMS code. So possibly they might have got rid of some of the problems by removing a lot of functionality in UE Music Library server. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96999 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
