few comments: garym wrote: > don't panic. All your stuff will still work. .... The only current issue > I see is that the future hardware might not be compatible with existing > hardware. In terms of LMS and your own music. This can work forever > without logitech's intervention.
As noted elsewhere I think, this means never upgrading. My Synology NAS has a "click and install" LMS, I use my NAS for lots of other things. I now need to get a new one, only for music, and never upgrade it or patch security holes etc... not great solution, but will have to be done. mherger wrote: > > Does this mean that in the event of one's internet connection going > down > > (which used to happen frequently when I was with my former ISP, the > major UK ISP), the UE Radio cannot be controlled to play locally stored > music? > > Yes, that's true. > Really bad. I have a very very flakey connection indeed in the mountains of Italy and this means my whole house music system would not work. mherger wrote: > The trend, whether you and I like it or not, is online streaming. The > collector who has thousands (I'm not even talking about tens of > thousands!) of tracks on his disc and prefers to manage them over using > an online stereaming service is a dieing breed. Not sure I agree, the biggest untapped segment will be the "non techies and non-early adopters" who have hundreds of CDs and decide that it's now probably time to embrace music stored centrally somehow and want a fairly decent quality solution. I think the reason this never got mainstream was i) no end to end process, including the ripping, for legal reasons, and ii) they could not make the interfaces / setup idiot proof. Here's what I see the needs to be source wise: 1. Local music ripped and stored on PC / NAS 2. Listen to Internet Radio 3. Listen through services like LastFM 4. Upload your collection online so you always have it wherever you are Then you have "how" we listen A) living room stereo "high end" B) kitchen / bedroom style booms C) On computer D) Mobile Players Let's compare old and new on this basis 1A SB: perfect with transporter / touch / classic 1A UE: Not available 1B SB: Perfect, no internet required, no lag 1B UE: Available but flawed.. can i plug a subwoofer in like i do now in kitchen boom? 1C SB: Easy if you want this 1C UE: Not seen anything that suggests one can do this - use winamp again? 1D SB: Not available 1D UE: Still not available ---- SB ------ UE ---- 2A - yes ---- no 2B - yes ---- yes 2C - yes ---- no? 3A --- yes--- no 3B --- yes --- yes 3C --- why? --no? 4A/B/C/D - no -- still no which means we lose a load of stuff, and do not gain any significant killer features like online collection to mobile devices or something... in addition a proportion like to have a dedicated touch / duet controller setup at least to go with their hi-fi living room setup, and that is now relegated to mobile apps. my kids won't have smartphones for another 5-6 years.... all in all doing a market analysis of the needs versus the products does not seem to have been high on their list... oh and i see the touch is no $700+ in US, and i cannot find them in Italy / UK for much less than £350, so I have found out about this a few months too late :'( ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wcndave's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=29445 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96188
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