usc95 wrote: > Hi Philippe, > > I just saw your question about why more people aren't using this plugin. > My feeling is that most people are only after the simplest and easiest > solution and the "work" with setting up LMS, configuring a plugin and > tinkering with it is too much for many people. They want something that > just works every time. I think that if there was a really popular > airplay device that worked right away practically every time then more > people would be encouraged to use it. Do you have a list of devices > that are dead simple to configure with your plugin? Maybe if that info > was prevalent we could tell people to just buy XXX and use the airplay > bridge and you can enjoy the squeezebox system. > > I also think that people have very little appreciation for a quality > system and if they do they assume they will have to pay Sonos money to > get it. That is why so many people are content streaming crappy MP3's > to a tiny bluetooth speaker. If something can't easily just be > purchased at a big box retailer and doesn't just work right out of the > box most people have no time for it. I was really hopeful for the > Chromecast Audio to fill this niche as something that most people could > get, that was cheap and would work right out of the box. Unfortunately > the lack of any way (not just your plugin) to get gapless playback on > local music with that thing makes it a non-starter for me. The only > software that worked for gapless was Spotify connect but that doesn't > help me listen to all of my live music. Even Google Music doesn't do > gapless on their own device! > > I've rambled enough but I just want to thank you for all of your plugins > and work that you have put in to keeping our beloved system relevant. > Hopefully others with similar skills will continue to step up and keep > the music flowing for many years to come in spite of Logitech's efforts > to ruin our fun. > > Marc
I think also what surprised me is that looking at the number of downloads on sourceforge (beyond the exchanges on that forum), there is a lot for the UPnP Bridge, a good amount for Chromecast and very little for AirPlay (especially the large difference between UPnP and AirPlay was a surprise because a lot of UPnP capable devices are AirPlay capable as well - at least I think - UPnP are higher than expected and AirPlay lower :)) BTW, on gapless, there is a potential solution for both UPnP and Chromecast and that's to have the bridge do decoding (like it does on AirPlay) and then make the player believe that everything is just a very long single track - the problem with that if you lose all metadata and progress indication on the player itself, so that's why I did not go that route LMS 7.7.5 - 5xRadio, 3xBoom, 4xDuet, 1xTouch, 1 SB2. Sonos 2xPLAY:1, PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, JBL OnBeat, XBMC, Foobar2000, XBoxOne, JRiver 21, Chromecast Audio, Chromecast v1, Pi B2, Pi B+, 2xPi A+, Odroid-C1, Cubie2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105198 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
