Peter;265199 Wrote: > > Still, there's no reason the Jive desktop, sorry Squeeze Player, > couldn't perform the same try-before-you-buy function for the > Duet/Controller combo. I wonder if we're going to see a small > rectangular black box with a colored led on our desktops ;) >
SoftSqueeze is absolutely critical for developing plugins and SC modifications for non-Receiver players. If there's no major change in the non-Receiver players or SlimProto, there's little reason for anyone to update SoftSqueeze. But if there's new hardware that uses the IR/VFD UI, SoftSqueeze must be updated for that. I'm sure Richard et. al. know this by now, but I really, really don't want to see the IR/VFD model replaced by Jive/"SqueezeOS". I guess the market may largely determine what happens -- if the SB3 and Transporter continue to sell well, hopefully Logitech will see the wisdom of not abandoning the IR/VFD model. I do like the Jive/SBC UI, but I think it is best as a complement to the VFD players -- the SBC is really nice for creating playlists without "taking over" the display of the Squeezebox so the others in the room can still see what's currently playing, and don't have to follow every darn move of the SBC user. This is especially true since the SBC uses a scroll wheel -- scroll wheel UIs like the iPod naturally tend to "overshoot" often, and the only thing worse than having to use a UI that overshoots (down, down, down, oops, up) is having to watch someone else work with such a UI. I do wonder if Logitech is planning a Squeezebox4 that looks like a digital picture frame, runs Jive, and uses a simplified remote whose IR codes are not processed by SC7. I hope not, as I think watching someone "drive" such a thing would be like watching someone reconfigure a media server on a big HD TV -- not fun. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitcher SleepFade StatusFirst SyncOptions VolumeLock ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42947 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
