It would be really interesting to start an open source player hardware
project, if anyone had the necessary skills etc. Must be possible given
the success of Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Kickstarter, 'maker' culture etc -
'print' your own Squeezebox at home even? ;) It would also bring it full
circle,
I just wanted to weigh in with my two cents here. I'm new to the
SqueezeBox platform (and to this forum), having got a SB Duet after
Logitech discontinued the whole SB line. However, I had been
experimenting with the server and software client for a while after
embarking on a project to rip all
dasmueller wrote:
My concern w the whole Squeezebox system going forward is that by
attempting to appeal to more of a mass market that Logitech is shooting
itself in the foot.
Logitech needs to do mass market, that's their strength, as a company
they don't have the experience and
agillis wrote:
We already have a fork that we are running as part of the VortexBox
distro and we already have a player that can replace Logitech hardware.
Now that all the logitech code is on Git Hub it should be really easy to
do a proper fork if we want.
I'm a satisfied but naively ungeek
guidof wrote:
I'm a satisfied but naively ungeek user of the VortexBox Appliance. I
appreciate your statement (and Andrew's on the VB Forum) and I hope that
you will continue to support those of us who use both SBs and VB.
However I am perplexed by your assertion that you already have a
garym wrote:
I'm 99% sure he means the VB Player. And you are correct, although a
very nice software player, it does not take the place of a TOUCH (that
can sit in a different room from the VB server/computer and be connected
via WIFI or ethernet back to the server).
I was sort of hoping
Just read The News... very sad, but not surprising :( Well there's
not much I can add to the 47 page thread I've just read. Instead, I
would like to think about constructive ways forward. A few
observations:
1) The Squeezebox ecosystem and community is strong, active,
knowledgeable and
An excellent post.
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tigersim wrote:
start considering contingencies before we wake up one day and find the
lights have gone out.
Thoughts?
I'm already awake, but it's pretty dark in here. So let's take a stab in
this 'ere dark: I think the fact that the devs are putting LMS into git
speaks volumes.
Just to add... I would fully accept that such a move would be aimed at
satisfying the geekier/hobbyist end of the spectrum. In a way that
seems to me to have always been the Squeezebox's true calling, and maybe
that's why Logitech struggled to take it to the masses. There's
nothing wrong with
pallfreeman wrote:
I'm already awake, but it's pretty dark in here. So let's take a stab in
this 'ere dark: I think the fact that the devs are putting LMS into git
speaks volumes.
Perhaps we should move this to the developers forum.
Into git? Interesting!
Maybe you're right, the
tigersim wrote:
So I suppose my question is, what are the legal and technical barriers,
if any, of forking the LMS development and moving away from reliance on
Logitech?
Without written permission by Logitech I suppose that:
- all images contained in the repository are under copyright
bluegaspode wrote:
Without written permission by Logitech I suppose that:
- all images contained in the repository are under copyright
- binary firmware is not allowed to be redistributed
- the name Squeezebox is trademarked and should be removed
Not that I would expect Logitech to
tigersim wrote:
This to me suggests there is a good possibility to sustain this
ecosystem just in the same way that other open source projects live on.
Maybe in time there's even a possibility to come up with basic 'thin'
players (think SB Receiver) based on a Raspberry Pi or whatever.
tigersim wrote:
Images and name can be re-imagined... :)
If someone with the necessary drawing skills is interested to spend some
time drawing completely new icons/logos for whole LMS and Touch/Radio
firmware, that would be a great start if some developer wants to make
what you suggested
erland wrote:
Those of us that can do it has already thought about doing it several
times during the last years with decreased Logitech development
resources, but we have all realized that even if Logitech only puts one
or two full time developers into maintaining it, that's still better
erland wrote:
If someone with the necessary drawing skills is interested to spend some
time drawing completely new icons/logos for whole LMS and Touch/Radio
firmware, that would be a great start if some developer wants to make
what you suggested happen, most developers I know (including
tigersim wrote:
As for a new business entity taking it on, well I'm sure most people
here would wish any such venture the very best, but with my objective
hat on I'm not sure I can yet see a strong enough commercial case - one
that would stand on pure business merits, independent of
We already have a fork that we are running as part of the VortexBox
distro and we already have a player that can replace Logitech hardware.
Now that all the logitech code is on Git Hub it should be really easy to
do a proper fork if we want.
Erland while I do not use your plugins I have great respect for the
efforts you have put in to accomodate peoples wishes on how the SBS/LMS
system could be improved to fit needs they have expressed. Your posts in
this thread I believe show a level of perspective that is not often seen
these days
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