cliveb wrote: > Comments like this just go to show how badly some people misunderstand > the Squeezebox ecosystem. > > None of the Squeezebox players were ever Windows devices, and the server > software isn't an audio application - it sends packets of data via > TCP/IP to the players. You can run the server on a machine without any > audio devices at all. So where would a "native audio driver for Windows" > fit?
i do understand the ecosystem. i have been using this stuff for ~ten years now. the things you point out, are things i know and knew and just obvious. the things i am saying that you are replying to, are things that i consider to be part of why all this ecosystem died. and just to be clear, it is dead. i have np with what exists. my problem is with what they didn't create. there should have been more focus on the windows market, b/c without that market, this was never going to be viable. the problem was that there was too much blind ideology or philosophy involved, basically a commitment to platform independence above all else, (mainly b/c the devs were all linux/mac types, and none of them live and work and play in a windows environment). what i suggested, (and i did so before this ecosystem died) is that had they made a windows driver, that then fed a transparent app whose job was to feed the audio from the driver into TCP/IP to the devices, then this all might have been viable. the advantage for the user is that they then could have used any software on the computer they wanted to use. i for one, find the server to be ridiculously designed, and not fun to use. that seems to be the sentiment of the market as well. i could have used winamp to play all my stuff the way i ALREADY was using winamp. and i can remote control my winamp too, i don't need server for that. think about it, all the money/resources/time poured into developing server, which was not a revenue generator, could have been used elsewhere. anyway, it makes no difference now if i am right or wrong. but what must be acknowledged, is what was done, was not the right thing to do. using: win7 64 + lms 7.9 & duet & ipads w/the logitech app, and ipeng on an ipod http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/various_artists_logic & http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/compilations ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BJW's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58242 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104431 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
