I don't agree with the internal storage part. People knock SlimServer, but it's really the reason why the Squeezebox is so flexible and powerful. I'd be disappointed in something whose feature set is fixed from day 1 and that can't be customized. Plus in terms of storage, why not use the huge capacities offered by hard drives? Why not use the vast untapped computing power of most PCs?
And finally, I don't want to maintain yet another music library for a Squeezebox portable! All that transferring music back and forth and regularly refreshing the internal storage card as I get sick of what's on it will get old really fast. What would be neat is if the internal storage could be synched to SlimServer over wireless. Perhaps a designated low bitrate subset of your SlimServer library could be transferred over. I don't see why mini USB instead of Ethernet either. In fact, maybe no wired networking at all would make more sense. It would be a shame to lose the VFD - even the Roku SoundBridge Radio uses one. However if it was to be battery powered there may be no choice. Personally I'm looking for more of a Squeezebox boombox with its own speakers but not 100% portable. It could be that there are two potential products here - a Squeezebox boombox and a Squeezebox portable. There are different needs here - internal storage would be absolutely essential in a portable device while it would not be desirable in a boombox still within wireless range. A boombox could likely be plugged in so a VFD could be used while a portable might benefit more from an LCD. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27378 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
