Mnyb wrote: > > The track urls are send up to the UESR.com server for use in the UI ok > awkward and a bit silly on the side, but sure it will work in most cases > . > I suspect the reason they do this is that they want to avoid the bother the user with "server" and let him just choose content without having to know which server that's providing it. This feature is great and something I've always wanted and it makes the system easier to use for non technical users.
However, generally I agree with you that the chosen solution is not a good way to implement it, but it was probably the easiest way to implement it if they wanted to base it on the source code from the Squeezebox and LMS. If it had been done the proper way, the UE Smart Radio would likely not be based on Squeezebox/LMS software at all, and this would definitely hurt existing Squeezebox users as Squeezebox/LMS maintenance would be completely ignored. With the chosen solution we can at least get some benefits since it's fairly easy for Logitech to backport changes for UE Smart Radio/UE Music Library to Squeezebox/LMS. An advantage with the chosen solution is that the reliability of uesmartradio.com needs to be a lot better than mysqueezebox.com reliability has been before, because now it's needed for playback of local music and for that it's unacceptable that it's suddenly is gone an hour in the middle of a party. It's annoying if it happens today when listening to some streaming service but it will be extremely annoying if it happens for a UE Smart Radio users as they can't use their device at all if uesmartradio.com goes down. However, I'm sure Logitech will provide a solution for this in a future firmware release if/when they realize they can't ensure the reliability of all ISP's and uesmartradio.com. Mnyb wrote: > > But a real concern is privacy is there any privacy statement on what > Logitech does with this information ? what kind of statistic are > retained and saved what are used internally is some of it used on behalf > of third parties in any way . > As already linked by Michael (and me previously in some thread): http://www.uesmartradio.com/public/privacy It's as clear as any other privacy statement I've seen. We might look at this as a problem, but it could also be the thing that differentiate UE Smart Radio from other products if Logitech would actually start using this data to create mixes, smart playlists, charts and similar thing that would enhance the music listening experience. Unfortunately it didn't sound like this is something they plan to do from a previous reply from Michael, but who knows what will happen in the future, maybe they realize the value of this information and really start to use it as they say in their privacy statement: "We use the information you and your product provide to us in order to provide the Smart Radio service to you and enhance and improve it for you and other users, to provide content recommendations, ...", which could result in something similar to what Apple does with their Genius concept. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96188 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
