Let's just face it, people listens to music in different ways. Some people only listens to music in front of their computer and doesn't see an issue to have to goto the computer to change track, it give them a lot of flexibility and there are plenty of systems which supports these kind of users, like WMP, iTunes, Winamp, ...
There are other people who only listens to music through their headphones connected to their smart phone, mainly because they have different taste than the other people in the family and it just works best if everyone listens through headphones and have the music on their smart phones/MP3 player. These people will just use apps on their smart phone and possibly have a bluetooth/AirPlay speaker which they sometimes use to get the music out in the room. Finally, there are people who want to enjoy music either in a dedicated listening room, around the whole house or even in the garden, all without being forced to sit in front of a TV or computer screen. For these people systems like Squeezebox/Sonos is the perfect solution. These are all very different categories and all exists, some people belong to one of the categories others belong to multiple categories dependent on situation, but there isn't a solution that fits everyone at all times. Sonos/Squeezebox fits some people but for other people these systems are just a big frustration and a lot of struggling. Personally, I'm a Squeezebox/Sonos kind of guy so anything that requires me to control the music via a computer screen or TV isn't an option and neither is anything that only works if the smart phone contains all music files. As side note, the 'ickStream Music Platform' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?98467-Pre-Announcement-ickStream-Music-Platform) is designed so it can potentially work in all the above scenarios, it just needs some third party developers who are interested to develop/integrate it with the necessary apps. Time will tell if this will be the case or not. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98450 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
