Its been a looong time since I posted in these forums, but I just popped in to say '+1' to this effort!
I'm very excited about this, not just because it could breath new life in to the SB ecosystem, but simply for what it is - a group of enthusiasts, passionate about something, willing to commit time, effort and money to realise something that could be of benefit to many people. Like many others, I've recently started wondering what I'm going to do with my SBs. I only have an SB3 (an original SlimDevices model), and a Boom, but I started looking to add another Boom when I discovered the news about all things SB going away. Then I discovered IckStream. Now I understand that certainly to begin with my SB3 and Boom won't be supported. I very much hope they will be in the future. Having read through this entire thread, I'm optimistic they will be somehow. I've invested a lot of time in getting my setup working how I want it to, and time spent tagging my music. So for what it is worth, here is an outline of my 'configuration': One media server running Ubuntu and LMS. This serves an SB3, and a Boom (soon to be two Booms I hope, if I can get something on EBay). The media server is running on a very old PC, with an efficient Pentium 4 under the hood. I don't like having the server on all the time - broadly speaking, the server runs during the day, and is switched off at night, thats when MySB comes into play. We listen to a lot of radio, but also our own music. We also really like some of the natural sounds, and often have the 'rain' sound playing from MySB during the night. I use a number of plugins to make my system work for me, including LastFM for recording what music of my own I listen to, MusicIP, AutoDim display for both Boom and SB (essential), Server Power Control (again essential - this is how I control switching between local LMS and MySB). SleepFade, TitleSwitcher, WeatherDateTime. I do like to tweak and fiddle with things, which is one of the reasons I like the SB ecosystem - because I fiddle with it, and make it work for me. That comes at a cost; things go wrong, but I try to keep it simple so that my wife and daughter can use it. Which brings me on to tagging. Like many others, I have a collection of classical music, and the lack of ability to manage it well in LMS is a source of frustration. I used to use Erlands plugins to help this, but things got complicated, so I simplified the tagging, which has led to a less-than-desirable UI experience when browsing classical music. The additional annoyance was the unability to set out exactly how I wanted my menu AND sub-menu structure to work on the SB3 and Boom UI, but I imagine that isn't really in your scope. I'd be happy to run my own LMS 24/7; I'm thinking about investing in a new small footprint PC or NAS perhaps which uses little power so can stay on, that would solve the problem of MySB going away.....but I won't be able to here the natural sounds anymore though! Sorry for the long rambling post - basically just wanted to say, I'm very excited for the work you guys are doing! Chris. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chris.mason's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3323 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98467 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
