MarkBennett wrote: > While I'm late to this party I'm pretty grumpy about this announcement. > > I've been a squeezebox user for over 10 years, with a squeezebox1, 2 > squeezeboxes 1.5's, 2 squeezebox 2's, a squeezebox 3/classic, a touch > and 3 radios. The touch and radios have all been bought in the last > year. I'm embarking on the build of a new house in the new year with > plans to fit the house out using Squeezebox touches, which would have > meant buying 12 of them. I predominantly use local content served from a > Linux server with BBC radio (live and listen again). > > Now, I'm not sure what to do. I still think the touch is the best > solution for me. The Sonos is the only real equivalent that I can see, > but the lack of a local display/interface is a real pain in the backside > (although the model with integrated amp would be very useful for the > bathrooms and the line-in could be useful in some cases). Sonos is also > quite expensive. > > Unlike most comments on the forum I'm not in a position of sit still and > see what happens. I need to either decide to go with Squeezebox or > abandon the system and go with Sonos. If I'm going to stick with > Squeezebox then I probably need to act now and buy up what I expect to > need (plus a couple of spares), or I'm relying on being able to pick > them up off EBay next year. > > My heart tells me to buy the SB Touches, but I'm nervous that sooner or > later I'll need to replace my server hardware and find that I can't > install LMS anymore due to software incompatibility. I don't want to > invest this money and then have to switch it out for a different system > in a few years time. > > What would any of you do in my situation?
I would buy the touches, and set up a small headless server to hold my music and run LMS. You will always be able to run LMS because you would never need to update the OS to something that can't run LMS. I use a Linux based vortexbox system. ps. Everyone talks as if Sonos will be in business forever. It won't. Nothing will. But your sb stuff is good for your use case for many years. And even today, the Sonos system won't even work for me for my current music library. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96188 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
