toby10 wrote: 
> Any idea when you will be offering direct connections to ick by SB
> players?  i.e. No LMS needed?  Thanks.  :)

One thing you need to be aware of is that if you do this, you can not
control it through the web interface or Squeezebox controller Apps
anymore, at least for the ickStream services.
ickStream is NOT going to be another Squeezebox server, it has it's own
control protocol.

Since Squeezeboxes can't run on their own but is controlled through a
server (remote control Apps don't talk to the player, but the server)
and since we can't get our services in MySqueezebox.com, the only way to
have ickStream integrated into a Squeezebox-style system is through
LMS.

Just building a complete replacement for MySqueezebox.com doesn't make
sense. It would require support of _two_ different protocols (the player
and the UI protocol) both of which are stateful so they scale very, very
badly. It would be extremely expensive, to begin with, to operate all
this, AFAIK Logitech literally runs thousands of server instances to
operate all these Squeezeboxes directly connected to MySB.



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