I would want to add a bit of perspective regarding the device support. The question about which devices to start with is really not one about which devices we want to favor or something like that. Myself, I regularly use 6 Squeezeboxes (plus a number of iThingies with iPeng as a player, but all but one of those are mainly really being used as mobile players and the one exception sitting in a dock currently is my ickStream player :) And plus some test devices, e.g. a Radio converted to UE). Of these 6 devices one is a Radio one is a Touch and all others are ip3k devices (2x Classic, 1x Boom, 1x Transporter),
So for my actual listening, I will need a solution for these old devices as much as anybody else here and I really hope it will be there. And soon. However, ickStream is not just a plugin for LMS to replace MySB, it's a whole different system and while it comes with moderate effort to support LMS as a music source and while the Squeezeplay based players are easy to adapt because they use a powerful and open platform, that's not true of the ip3k devices. Putting a software on them is not an option, we don't even have a software toolkit for that (and it would be prohibitively expensive) plus the memory on these devices is so tight that adding ickStream inevitably would mean removing some of the Squeezebox related functionality. So the only way to get these devices supported is by running them as Squeezebox devices and making LMS the "ickStream Player". This is not impossible, the UPnP plugin in LMS actually does something very similar, but it's a bit against our architecture which is why it's simply not the thing to start with. One of our basic ideas is to have more independent devices and this simply fits the new Squeezeboxes better, so they come first. I am pretty convinced we will have a solution for ip3k devices, too. Actually I rely on it. But we don't have infinite time and resources so we have to start with _something_ and there the old players simply are not step 1 on the to-do-list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
