getting back to the op... i think the conclusion of the review is pretty accurate. i still think the SBC is simply amazing, b/c of how easy it is to work it. i can show someone it, and they can use it, almost instantly... i just say click this, click that, and they get it. thats great.
however, the connection issues are a liability, as is the SC software itself. i would like to use the hardware but have a new piece of software. sure, keep developing SC, you should, but give the masses a way to use the SBC with winamp or itunes (i hate itunes btw) or other apps. surely a plugin for winamp or some kind of go-between layer could be installed that would route the audio from ANY application into TCP/IP to get it to the hardware. another plugin could operate as the SBC way to manipulate winamp. it may sacriface some features to do so, but so be it. the question ultimately will come up at logitech... do we want to forever more develop a product that needs its own limited music library (via web browser!) software that can run on everything, or do we want to just sell to the 97% of the marketplace that has windows or mac? in other words, would we make more sales if our hardware integrated seamlessly with existing platform specific apps? i think its hard to argue they wouldn't. i know a ton of people who would buy this stuff tomorrow if they could power it with itunes or winamp, via a more or less transparent intrepreting software layer. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 (primary) / SBR (secondary) / SBC - w/SC 7.1beta - Win XP Pro SP3 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49085 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
