cliveb wrote: > It strikes me that the Squeezebox ecosystem has already migrated to the > technical hobbyist domain; a bit like MythTV. > And because LMS is open-source, it is likely to remain alive and well > for many years to come, but only within that restricted niche. > I personally shall continue to use it (and MythTV) for the foreseeable > future. > But as a commercial product it seems pretty much dead - Joe Public isn't > going to be interested in fiddling around with Raspberry PIs. > > (What happens when mysqueezebox.com shuts down doesn't interest me - I > have never used it).
I agree with your observation: it has already migrated to the technical hobbyist domain and as such suits my *personal* needs just fine. I guess I wanted to understand better why commercial realizations were not forthcoming since all the key technical problems are solved already. It would be attractive to me if there were a nicely packaged player in a box with ethernet in and audio out on RCA or XLR sockets. The technical barriers to entry seem low to non-existent, but the legal and market-strategy considerations seem to have made this a non-starter. I guess a public forum is not the place to discuss this in detail, but I was hoping to get some clues by posting here. It would certainly strengthen the ecosystem to have commercial success occur in some fashion, but the mix of open source community-based contributions and commercially motivated concerns seem to have created a very toxic combination in the recent past, not that I claim to have properly understood what happened there. It just instinctively feels like a lost opportunity to me that's all. Charles. ---------------------- "Dreamer, easy in the chair that really fits you..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dsdreamer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104714 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
