Paul Webster wrote: > I saw MH comment that he is running his server for UE Radio on Linux - > so this means (implies at least) that there is still software for the > end-user to install. > Isn't that the part that causes some end-users to have problems (the > installation a s running of software)? > If they can install and run something (and recognise that if the machine > that they ran it on it not switched on then they can't play their local > music) then they would have been able to run LMS wouldn't they? > The concept is a bit different though. Ye olde SB was initially designed to have a local server (I believe the first devices only ever worked that way), later MySB was added to the mix and provided some backend support for various services and it also acted as a limited features fallback solution when you didn't have a local server. The concept provided ample amounts of pitfalls to stump the casual (uninterested) user and to cause support headaches for Logitech. With the UE device always connected to the server in the cloud they've dumbed things down a bit. Installing the server and getting it to work will still be too difficult for some, but explaining this concept to a reluctant learner is probably less challenging.
Paul Webster wrote: > If the new device was a UPnP-AV control point and player ... then that > could make a home set-up simpler since the server software that they > would need might already be on their machine and Logitech would not have > to build & maintain server software (except for their managed service). > That is the route taken by other Internet radio-centric devices. A couple of problems with that. Given the wildly varying performance of UPnP servers I wouldn't like to market any product depending on those. More importantly though, even if LMS has "issues" with handling libraries with less than perfect metadata, when it does work it will slap most UPnP servers silly when handling large music collections. In my mind the LMS is a large portion of what puts the SB above the other streaming systems for music and I expect that some of it will carry over to the new system, using UPnP it would have been harder to stand out from the a rather bland group of streamers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ alfista's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32396 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96188 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
