I don't think the certification holds much water, but there are a number of organisations locally here who perform audio/video system installations for people who either don't know enough about it or have enough money not to be concerned with it themselves. This idea seems to be a simple extension of that service, with extra skills from the installers around wireles/wired networks and software installation and configuration. Ripping and tagging can be tedious for the meticulous, but generally I find when I buy a new album I simply pop it in the CD drive, and run EAC, which automatically populates the album/song detail tags for me. I check the tags quickly, and burn it to flac which results in the album being exactly where I want it on the file system, correctly tagged. I then run an album art down-loader for the art. This again is semi automated after configuring the software for the location of the songs.
Then click rescan in the SS interface and away you go. I expect you could even (I haven't researched this) trigger this from a daemon which watches for changes in your music file system. Of course this describes the 'happy path' for loading music onto your system....there are other paths down which I have traveled as well. So, to perform an installation to put all this in place for the non-technical is a reasonable idea, I think (I've done it myself for friends who see my SB and want one immediately). There will always be something which comes up for software users for which they'll require assistance, but in the end this is common to all installed applications. Will this provide a satisfactory income stream for you if you focus just on Logitech streaming media devices, maybe not... My two cents.... -- peejay I've got a fever above my waist You got a squeeze box on your knee I know the truth is in between the 1st and 40th drink - Tori Amos ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7046 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43491 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
