JimC;167482 Wrote: > To that end, I would absolutely love to hear from the community about > what you think is great about Slim Devices/Squeezebox/Transporter and > about what we can do to make them better. The main things that made me fell in love with my SqueezeBox ============================================================ 1. You get your whole music library easily accessible, no more CD switching.
2. The sound quality. There are other products that solve point 1, but often they do it in a way that decrease sound quality compared to a standard CD player. 3. The display!. The way you can actually sit in the sofa and see which music is playing is great. This is the thing most of the devices from other companies are missing, they either have no display at all, a small display that can't be seen from the sofa or requires the TV to be on. The display is one of the things that looked even better in place in my livingroom compared to when I read the product pages on internet. I guess you just won't realize its potiential until you see it live. 4. The plugin architecture and open source model. This is something that most normal customers won't think about directly. In my opinion there is a great potential here because it means that Logitech can focus on the core/massmarket functionality and make it really good, simultaneously third party developers will contribute with plugins and extensions to the slimserver code to broaden the functionality to cover all non massmarket interests. 5. Linux support. Since I nowadays runs most of my computers on Linux I would really hate if the linux support would be dropped. Linux also makes it possible to run slimserver all sorts of small footprint devices such as NAS boxes. Point 1 and 3 is the things that will make almost anyone love the SqueezeBox at first sight. Some things that could be improved ================================== 1. The web interface works for me since I don't use it much, but for people used to iTunes or similar applications its a huge step back. Ajax is one solution a Windows client is another. I think the people complaining on the interface are typically Windows (and maybe Mac) users. 2. The server hardware. A thing that has been frequently requested the last year, when I have read these forums, is some sort of server hardware. It is sometimes requested directly and sometimes indirectly as a including server functionallity directly in SqueezeBox making it a non slim device and sometimes by questions about how to install slimserver on NAS boxes. The thing is that most massmarket customers won't like to have their computer running 24 hours a day. Without a 24 hour server I don't think I would love the SqueezeBox as much as I do. The problem is that instead of just switching the SqueezeBox on, I would have to also turn on a noisy computer everytime I want to listen to my music. To keep full flexibility I would suggest that there should be a SqueezeBox offer with both the SqueezeBox and a dedicated preconfigured silent server hardware. This way people which already have a 24 hours server can buy only the SqueezeBox and people which don't can by the SqueezeBox+server package. It's important that the server is preconfigured with slimserver already installed, this would probably get rid of some of the installation problems people are having today. 3. Stability. People are sometimes complaining about slimserver crashes, sometimes due to actual bugs but often due to incorrect configuration or a plugin that doesn't work correctly. With the plugin architecture in slimserver the stability for malfunctioning plugin must be improved, today a malfunctioning plugin will often crash slimserver. Many times the problem is that people are running a plugin version incompatibile with the current slimserver, but sometimes the problems are caused by a bug in the plugin code. 4. Tagging and ripping. Today people must buy/get a separate program to tag and rip their music before it can be used with slimserver. I think the current solution where no ripping/tagging functionality is included in slimserver might be correct, but there is a need to include some sort of tagging/ripping software with the SqueezeBox/slimserver to get it ready for the massmarket. It might be solved by bundling the software with the SqueezeBox or just adding some links and instructions to the slimserver download pages. Thanks for a really great product, keep up the good work. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-trackstat) , 'SQLPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-sqlplaylist) , 'DynamicPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-dynamicplaylist), 'Custom Browse' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-custombrowse),'Custom Scan' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-customscan) and 'RandomPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-randomplaylist) plugins) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31324 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
