andyg wrote: > Hi everyone. Unsurprisingly, the other shoe began to drop today with > Logitech laying off a handful of folks within the team, including > myself. I haven't read through very much of this thread but I wanted to > say that I am very pleased to see this effort in finding a way forward > in the post-Logitech world, and I had no doubt this great community > would already be on top of things here. :) > Sorry to hear that... To me this is a sign that they also don't have any faith in the smartradio concept and that it will be abandoned within a very short period.... as I already predicted...
> A couple of changes I was thinking of implementing involve removing > MySqueezebox.com support from the ip3k firmware, SqueezePlay, and LMS. I > do not know what Logitech plans to do with MySB but it is just a matter > of time before either they stop funding it, or it breaks with no one to > fix it. Sadly most music services will have to be removed, but Triode's > Spotify plugin shows it might be possible for the community to > reimplement some of them, if they have public documentation. > Would it be possible to somehow make this configurable (somewhere during the setup ask for an url/hostname). In that case we could setup a community replacement for Mysqueezebox.com... But I'm not sure if we really would need it looking at Triode's Spotify plugin... > As for Smart Radio, personally I'd like to see those devices allowed to > become SB Radios if Logitech decides to stop supporting the > uesmartradio.com backend. Unfortunately Logitech controls distribution > of the SR firmware so this will require cooperation from them. I would > recommend not investing any time into supporting Smart Radio. I don't think anyone here would buy a crippled Squeezebox Radio... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ servies's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9496 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97881 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
