Candlemass wrote: > Well, to be honest: if there are no new users anymore because Logitech > has dropped the Squeezebox line please make the software open source. > Then at least there is a possibility that the system won't die > completely on iOS.
Can't speak for bluegaspode but that's usually not easily done. In iPeng's case: I would not open source the code of the old iPeng because it's simply too bad. The App was developed under iOS 2.0 and since then the OS has changed a lot. It would be a tremendous amount of work to even get it to a standard where one could maintain it as an open source software. "Open source" alone doesn't solve any maintenance issues. There's still work that needs to be done and if it's more than one developer working on it and not the original developer the work gets more, not less. Just look at the progress the Open Source Squeezebox Apps have made on Android compared to the commercial ones. Squeezer is OK but far away from OrangeSqueeze or SqueezeControl, even SqueezeCommander which hasn't seen an update in three years beats it dead in the water. Candlemass wrote: > BTW: Logitech still sells the UE Smart Radio, which can be "downgraded" > to the Squeezebox firmware ;) No, they don't. It's another discontinued product. There are some left in sales channels but so are leftover Squeezeboxes. There are 3rd party solutions coming up which are Squeezebox compatible but right now they mainly cater toward existing Squeezebox users who need additional players. This helps getting hardware sales but doesn't add new App users. nitram wrote: > But my point is that a 'whole music system' isn't needed! SqueezePad is > already a paid app if one selects the player option. And this means it > runs completely independently of Squeezebox hardware. One merely has to > install LMS: at no cost! > > That seems to me worth emphasizing to attract new users. That's what I meant with a system. You need to install a server and use the App, that's a "System" then which competes with iTunes (free, preinstalled), Airfoil and a dozen other systems deeper integrated and more used by iOS users. It's hard to communicate the merits of your paid-for App to non-Squeezebox users who have never seen that (and are not familiar with the Squeezebox menu structure, which can be weird in the eyes of people not used to it). It may find its users but simple is different. This means work. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 8, the Universal App for iOS 7 and iOS 8* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80553 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
