seanadams Wrote: > We expect this to be the first of many horses, and we're not interested > in forcing anyone to use any particular music source. Our goal is ALL > THE MUSIC and we're happy to let users decide which services they'll > get it from. However, there are practical and legal limits to which > non-open/non-mp3 ones we can bring online, and how quickly. Please > don't assume that because our software is open source that we oppose > non-free-anything - our software roadmap has always indicated plans to > support more formats and more music sources including DRM ones. As much > as we'd like everyone to use sensible file formats and open interfaces, > we're just not big enough to drive that, so instead we'll try to just > make it all available and let you decide. Thanks, Sean: that is what I hoped to hear. Your well-known discretion about ongoing negotiations may lead to unrealistic speculation that things like Rhapsody are coming Real Soon Now. Then something like this may seem more a disappointing substitute than a parallel option.
I do hope some of the important "practical and legal limits" can be overcome in time. We like it to sound good and look good, but, as you suggest, we all really want choices in music. -- tom permutt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tom permutt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1893 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20894 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
