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Question: Could a wireless enabled iPod overtake the Squeezebox as a
network music player?
    
- Yes - I want my wireless iPod yesterday!
- No - nothing will pry my Squeezebox from my cold, dead, hands!
- Meh - it could cause some defection but not kill Slim entirely...
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Simon Still Wrote: 
> Slimserver still comes across as hobbyware -  it's fiddly, unintuitive
> and
> inconsistent in the way it works.  Settings are hidden all over the
> place and it it's skinned and skins are, IMO, a terrible idea - 10
> poor, incomplete interfaces rather than one good one.

I think that's a bit harsh, in my opinion.  Although the intuitiveness
isn't close to something as *simple* as iTunes or an iPod, the
*-power-* that is acquired through Slim Server and a Squeezebox more
than makes up for it.

That said (and I could be going out on a limb here), I don't think Sean
ever *intended* the Squeezebox/Slim Server to be dumbed down to
iTunes/iPod standards.  Sure he wants the company/products to be
successful (and sell alot), but the Slim Device audience is different:
it's audiophiles who want the finest in modern technology.  The typical
iTunes/iPod owner doesn't care about Burr Brown DAC's or the
customization options available in Slim Server.

*-We-* do.  ;-)

And as far as the skins comment is concerned...-now- I think you're
smoking something.  Anyone who doesn't see the brilliance of the Nokia
770 skin is on crack as far as I'm concerned.  ;-)


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EnochLight
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