MrSinatra;174327 Wrote: > i apparently have to explain this in painstaking detail... > > > > ipod will work with other software, NOT ONLY itunes. > > if it ONLY worked with itunes, it wouldn't be as popular as it is. > thats "so what." > > > > you are totally missing the point, you completely misunderstand me. > > > > try reading everything i wrote again. > > i am NOT pissed about EITHER free, nothing you just wrote there above > applies to me. > > here's what i meant, and if you want to lay the blame at my feet for > not being clear enough the first time, so be it: > > SD makes NO MONEY or revenue out of developing SS. there is no revenue > in it for them. i would also venture to guess that the costs > ofdeveloping it far outweigh any partnerships they have with rhapsody > and so on, if indeed those generate revenue at all. > > they MAINLY make their money out of selling the hardware. > > since that is the case, why FORCE us to use their free software? why > not make the hardware able to be used by any audio app, like winamp or > itunes or musicmatch or whatever? > > if they still wanted to develop and use SS they could, but it should > not be the only way. > > what confuses me, is why they FORCE is to use this ONLY way, when they > give it out for free and make no money from it, and incur headaches and > costs from it. > > is this now clear? > > > > it is in the interest of ANY company whose main revenue stream is > SELLING HARDWARE to have their product more compatible, then less > compatible. > > SB is one of the only products out there that refuses to work with any > other software. > > yes, its open source, its free, its cross platform. but that doesn't > mean much to me if i don't like using it b/c it sucks in various ways. > > i think a lot more people, even non techie newbies, would get a lot out > of a SB they could use as "just another sound card" on their computer, > that allowed them to use ANY pgm they wished with it. > > > > all i want is a device driver for the OS that powers the SB. i don't > care if i can control it via remote or not. i hardly think my request > is sacriledge. > > > > not realistic from a business model standpoint. > > by that logic, SD shouldn't develop it at all, merely maintain what > others do. > > > > what are you talking about? > > i already said that setting up shoutcast and analog cables in my > soundcard to give me a workaround so i can "feed" my SB is not a > solution i'm interested in, as it defeats the sonic purpose and is > inelegant to say the least. > > > > straw man, not my argument. > > > > actually, windows allows you to run more than one "sound device." you > can route "system sounds" and so on, to one device, and all your music > and so on, to another device, (presumably the one where your stereo > is). > > i'm not sure what u mean by having the xp machine serve out the stream > on a virtual audio device. > > are you saying that if i want to run winamp, i should also run > shoutcast, have it encode whatever winamp is doing, (via line in i > suppose) and serve it out re-encoded? > > that may work for winamp, but its not a good solution. > > > > in my case, DRM has nothing to do with anything i'm doing. i make my > own mp3s and listen to mp3 streams. > > i don't think that this should preclude the development of a windows > driver for SB, to replace SS as the only method of using a SB.
Regardless of whether you have a point or not, all of your posts have been hopelessly OT on this thread. Rather than hijack a thread, start a new one. This thread was supposed to be for people introducing themselves, NOTHING ELSE. Really, seriously, start another thread. This is NOT the place. -- totoro squeezebox 3 -> mccormack dna .5 -> audio physic tempo 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ totoro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5935 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31324 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
