mvordeme wrote: 
> It isn't entirely impossible to modify the players' firmware to make
> them connect to a different service. But that was more a strategical
> thought, anyway. In case Logitech want to discontinue mysb, they'd
> probably be happy to give away the domain.
> 
The problem is not the domain as such. It's the protocol.
Old Squeezebox models only speak SlimProto which is a totally
non-scaleable, stateful, bi-directional protocol requiring a permanent
streaming connection.
It's totally fine in a local setup with just a few players because it's
very responsive but running it as an internet service is not exactly
ideal. This is probably also the reason for the occasional outages MySB
has been seeing in the past and it requires an expensive
infrastructure.

> 
> What about the option to integrate ickStream into MySB, then,
> technically?
> No big problem. MySB is essentially LMS so it should be possible to
integrate our plugin. Would not work for all services, though. Don't
expect Spotify to work on a Transporter that way, for example. Plus:
Logitech would have to do that.

> 
> Doesn't the Touch come with a built-in LMS? Can it be used to make
> ickStream available to my "old" players?
Should work, we haven't tested the ARM builds of the plugin on the Touch
but currently I don't really see a reason why it should break.
Since the Touch doesn't have a plugin installer you'd have to install it
manually through SSH, though.



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