hi Jim, as you can see, SD forums are basically two camps, cheerleaders and cranks.
i'm a crank. i guess my problem is that i know exactly what i want, and no one makes it. i have a SB2, and like most people, i think the web UI stinks. sorry, but thats my opinion cheerleaders, and i'm entitled to it. my other concerns are that the SS software is very buggy, that the display is only on the device, not the remote, (a big problem for me and many others i'm sure) and that only SS software powers the device; it can't be used as an external soundcard, (and therefore you can't "winamp it" or itunes or dvd, or whatever...) it [ss] also in recent versions has developed a weakness in streaming internet stations b/c now the hardware does it alone. i like that paradigm, but the hardware needs to be as robust as software streaming solutions, (like winamp). some ISPs are flaky, SD products must recognize that. if winamp can do it, SD hardware better be able to do it too. some of this has been gone over before, please see these links: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28821 (interestingly, its the cheerleaders who are the most paranoid about logitech, whereas i'm not at all) http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29153 http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28676 in any case, there's lots to love about SD, i'm not all negative. it is what i've used and i have tried to give feedback to fix problems with it. i am a believer in open source and i like that people can hack it and so on... i hope the next product will combine the best of SD, with the best of the logitech product i talked about in an above link. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 w/SS 6.5.1 (beta!?) - Win XP Pro SP2 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31324 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
