Re: [slim] Integration with DropBox

2010-03-26 Thread cooppw02
erland;528087 Wrote: I might be missing something but my Dropbox appears as a regular directory on the local hard drive which is continuously synchronized with the DropBox online account. Shouldn't it be enough to just create a shortcut/soft link in your music library that points to that

Re: [slim] Integration with DropBox

2010-03-25 Thread cooppw02
A month ago, one of their developers posted that they would be releasing Linux ARM builds this year, but gave no ETA: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=17384#post-108742 So, even if it's impractical to get it officially supported, it could be a really neat DIY project for the Touch. I'm

Re: [slim] Integration with DropBox

2010-03-25 Thread erland
andyg;527725 Wrote: With a Dropbox solution you'd be stuck browsing by folders I guess. There is also no Dropbox API that I can see to make something like this possible. I might be missing something but my Dropbox appears as a regular directory on the local hard drive which is

Re: [slim] Integration with DropBox

2010-03-24 Thread nicooo75
The same stands for mp3tunes (they offer almost the same storage capability) and yet logitech has integrated with mp3tunes. So I think it doesn't hurt and even more it can bring customers to suqeezebox since Dropbox has more than 1 million users... -- nicooo75

Re: [slim] Integration with DropBox

2010-03-24 Thread trouty00
I was thinking about this also but not for music but for photos for screensavers, obviously flickr has this but you could make a publuc folder for all your family and friends using dropbox to drop pictures into and then these pics would show up as the screensaver. -- trouty00

Re: [slim] Integration with DropBox

2010-03-24 Thread bhaagensen
It just occurred to me, that this is a brilliant idea. Obviously, Dropbox is very nice being natively multiplatform (MAC, PC, Linux, Iphone, Blackberry, Android?) , webaccessible, general, extremely easy to use, free (limited), and I think fairly widespread. It would make portability a no-brainer

Re: [slim] Integration with DropBox

2010-03-24 Thread andyg
One of the benefits of MP3tunes is that it's focused on music, and they build a basic server-side index of your music by reading the tags. Also MP3tunes is a lot cheaper, 50GB for $39.95/year or $4.95 a month, vs 50GB Dropbox for $9.99/month. With a Dropbox solution you'd be stuck browsing by

[slim] Integration with DropBox

2010-03-23 Thread nicooo75
Hi, I have a squeezebox radio and it works rather fine now. Since I have a laptop (that's not always on) the squeezebox radio cannot access my music library. I know you already solved this issue thanks to a partnership with mp3tunes music locker but as I already use dropbox (which is way more

Re: [slim] Integration with DropBox

2010-03-23 Thread esbrewer
I'm a huge fan of Dropbox, but many users here maintain large lossless libraries that push the practical limitations of most services like Dropbox. -- esbrewer Server: 2.4GHz Intel iMac running Mac OS 10.6.2, SBS 7.4.2, Inguz DRC Sources: SB3 (2), SB Boom, NAD C542, NAD T515 Amplification: