seanadams Wrote:
> Thanks guys! Pandora is going to be huge - no doubt the biggest thing
> to happen to music since Napster.
>
Do you really think so? I respect your opinion, but I'm not seeing
it.
Pandora has a fraction of the music available on Rhapsody Radio or
Launchcast. There is no way to browse it, only a clunky searcher.
Notwithstanding the highfalutin language ("music genome"), it's no
better at guessing what I'd like. It streams in a medium-resolution
format that isn't going to sound much better on an audiophile
Squeezebox than on a Ratty Old Kopykat Unit.
So why has the premium hardware maker teamed up with the Brand X
service provider? Surely not because of their shared philosophy of
openness:
seanadams Wrote:
> It's not DRM in the usual sense, but yes there are reasons why we
> probably won't put this in SlimServer.
Indeed, Pandora seems to be paranoid not about the rights to the music
itself, but about some bot deducing their suggestion algorithm.
Not, I hope, because Slim wants to join a box+service battle:
Isomething+Itunes vs. Roku+Rhapsody vs. Slim+Pandora. If so, I fear
Slim is on the wrong horse; but, more importantly, it's the beginning
of the end of the open-source, open-format idea.
So, what's going on? Are the big players just too afraid of open
source altogether to deal with Slim at all?
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