Corelli45 wrote: > Will the new software enable similar functionality to the current > Ipeng+Squeezebox Touch set up? And will we be able to continue to use > current add ons such as Triode's Spotify and Enhanced Digital Output > plug ins? >
With current add-ons we will have to see. There might be a simple but inconvenient (from a UI perspective) way to just use what is currently there (the current Squeezebox UI is not at all content aware so can't support some of the cooler features we are doing). Generally, the idea is that everybody can easily create own content providers for this and I'm pretty sure it will be possible to develop a generalized way to do this from LMS. In this case it would make a lot of sense to directly go through the ickStream interface instead of creating a Squeezebox menu first because, well, it would then support the cool features mentioned above :) One thing that is different is that long term we envision that 3rd party support for streaming services could be hosted on a web server so that you don't have to run something on an own server to make it work. We don't have a concrete implementation for this today, though. ajkidle wrote: > Naive of me to think otherwise, but you've made me nervous again... > > Does the ickStream development possibly provide a solution for such an > event, or is your focus on the Radio/Touch architecture? Currently the focus is on the Radio/Touch architecture for the reasons mentioned above. There has been an idea on how older players could be supported, too, but we haven't done work on this, yet, and I'm almost sure the very first incarnation will not support it, we might have to rely on 3rd party support here and we have to make a particular change (although we already know we will need that one anyhow). In a more general sense: there is no way to ever be safe against things like that with any system as long as your service provider uses DRM and keeps his hands on it. This explicitly includes Spotify, too, who are, strictly speaking, prohibiting all of this. The 3rd party plugin probably goes as far as you can bend their rules. So the general rule is: prefer services who are more open and use standard streaming formats like AAC and mp3 so that you only need access to their content lookup because that's what they will always provide. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98467 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
