mherger;498436 Wrote: 
> 
> But once today's owner decides to no longer even have the servers
> required in the background to run, then it's basically dead.
> 

Michael, correct me if I'm wrong. My understanding is that the server
is only used to speed up the analysis process. If the track you're
trying to analyze is already in the server then it sends you an
identifier and the analysis data. If the track is not in the server then
using the MusicIP client your computer analyzes the data (a longer
process) and sends the analysis results to the server so that subsequent
user that need to analyze the same track avoid the long analysis
process. In other words, I thought that the MusicIP client could work
independent of the server. Of course, anylizing a big library, from
scratch, in stand-alone mode would take a very, very long time. I've
have been backing up the analysis data (default.m3lib) as I thought this
would spare me from ever having to analyze my library from scratch
again. I did not embed the signatures in my FLAC files as MusicIP has
forever been in beta.  

Are you saying that the MusicIP server massages the analyzed data
further once the local process is done and that without the server any
MusicIP client analysis is useless? If this is the case, then the more
reason for Logitech to license this service. I understand that the
squeezeteam is going through a lot of changes, but MusicIP licensing
should be on the list of to-dos for next year. If the owners of the
MusicIP servers generate "some" revenue from the existing server(s),
then they'd have an incentive to keep the service running. I will
probably stay away from any new Squeezeproduct if MusicIP is no longer
in the mix.


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