garym wrote: > I only know one other SB user (in physical life...) that uses local > music files (and he uses mp3 files connected via USB drive to a TOUCH). > All other users (maybe only 6 in total) use only mysqueezebox.com. Two > have radios, one has TOUCH, two have Booms, and one has duet receiver. > > and both booms and one Radio are gifts from me to people (who wouldn't > likely have bought a digital music player on their own). I don't know > anyone that uses a SONOS. Lots of people I know have ipods or iphones > or android phones, and most stick in a speaker doc and stream pandora or > radio paradise, etc. The odd thing is I know a lot of people who love > music, and some even have CD/vinyl collections exceeding 10,000). Based > on my personal observations of friends only, it is amazing that > Squeezebox did as well as it did. > > p.s. They are impressed and amazed with my system (particularly when I > pass them the iPad and say pick something out). But their eyes glaze > over when I start to explain how it all works.
Your experience and observatins of how others choose to listen to music do not surprise me at all. I think this is fairly common for many music listeners, the ipod/iphone etc approach. When I 1st bought my 1st Touch I was looking for a method to listen to the music I then owned wo having to go search for this CD or that one each time I wanted to listen to something. I would add that probably 1/2 of the 25K tracks I have on my external hard drive are from legally downloaded concerts. Thes present a tagging issue in that they are not in any online databases which tend to be less than accurate from my experience anyway. This required many hours of manual tagging. Most people do not want to or have the time to do this type of prep work. Most do not have the volume of live concert downloads either. That being said I have enjoyed the challenge of learning software and fixing issues as they arose. Many just want to plug and play. The work invoved w a local music library can be staggering to many, but it has been well worth the effort. One of the big drawbacks to the new UE Radio from what I have read is its inability to play a random mix of tracks. This is a very nice function of the Squeezebox line. Let's hope they integrate that function into future versions of the software and also come out w a device one can connect to a home stereo/music system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dasmueller's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38035 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96555 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
