Just among my acquaintances I know a few people who have large CD collections but went a different route -- they bought a huge CD changer. I know they don't consider the solution ideal, but I suspect they'd find the computer issues daunting without some help.
I don't know if bundling the ripping/encoding/tagging software with the SB is necessarily the way to go. But it could be as easy as providing a quick start guide to ripping/encoding music. Just defining the concepts, and pointing the person to the right resources (the wiki, or maybe some online guides).
I think it boils down to the fact that I believe the following things to be true:
- There is a market for the SB outside of people who already have their music ripped to a PC
- A good percentage of these people do not have their music on a PC probably are in that situation due to a lack of PC savvy
- The SB would be an appealing product to some of these people, if they could overcome the PC phobia
The size of this market is obviously debatable, as well as whether it is worth pursuing, as well as the best way to pursue it.
On 7/12/06, cbemoore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
Geting back to the original poster's suggestions, I don't think that
bundling CD ripping software with SlimServer is the right way forward.
In my opinion, the whole idea of the Squeezebox is:
If you *already* have lots of music stored on your PC, (for example,
you rip it yourself or download it from some reputable source), its
easy to play it back on your computer in the office, but its hard to
play it back anywhere else (for example, in your kitchen, or on your
hi-fi system in the lounge). The Squeezebox is the solution to this
problem.
So if you buy a Squeezebox, it kind of assume that you already have
your music ripped in the format of your choice. So bundling a ripper is
completely unnecessary....
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