Re: [slim] 2 years and counting

2011-10-23 Thread Owen Smith
garym;664911 Wrote: Sonos does a very good job with its products and its marketing as far as I can tell, but it is too limiting for me. Sorta the apple of networked music players. And don't get me wrong, I love my apple stuff for certain uses It's just a shame that Sonos is going from

Re: [slim] 2 years and counting

2011-10-23 Thread dasmueller
Owen Smith;664973 Wrote: It's just a shame that Sonos is going from strength to strength and yet in the same market Squeezebox is struggling and the beginnings of the end are in sight. I blame the bugs and complexity, there's no way I'd recommend a Squeezebox to my parents its simply too

Re: [slim] 2 years and counting

2011-10-23 Thread garym
Owen Smith;664973 Wrote: It's just a shame that Sonos is going from strength to strength and yet in the same market Squeezebox is struggling and the beginnings of the end are in sight. I blame the bugs and complexity, there's no way I'd recommend a Squeezebox to my parents its simply too

Re: [slim] 2 years and counting

2011-10-22 Thread Owen Smith
maggior;664672 Wrote: If they do drop squeezeboxes, I guess I should take solice in the fact that I can drive 2 miles to my local Target and buy a Sonos system. :-(. But the Sonos only supports 44.1/16 tracks, there is no support for hi def files. I have quite a lot of 48/24 and some 96/24,

Re: [slim] 2 years and counting

2011-10-22 Thread garym
Owen Smith;664894 Wrote: But the Sonos only supports 44.1/16 tracks, there is no support for hi def files. I have quite a lot of 48/24 and some 96/24, this was the original reason I chose Squeezebox instead of Sonos. I'm now seriously into Triode's excellent BBC iPlayer plugin for the

[slim] 2 years and counting

2011-10-21 Thread finnbrodersen
Hi It has been 2 years since the Radio and Touch announcements (sep '09), and still no sign whatsoever of any new hardware in the pipeline. Your guess is as good as mine, but is the SB hardware at the end-of-the-line or what ? -- finnbrodersen Some version of SBServer running on a HP EX490

Re: [slim] 2 years and counting

2011-10-21 Thread Muele
If you ask me: Yes, we are at the end. Now that the Revue and Squeezebox are getting fused together via Squeezebox-server/LMS, Logitech will kill Squeeze the day that they pull the plug on Revue. And that day is just around the corner. The only positive sign I see is that the few software

Re: [slim] 2 years and counting

2011-10-21 Thread maggior
I hope the day doesn't come where I regret not stocking up on SB Touch's while they were cheap. If they do drop squeezeboxes, I guess I should take solice in the fact that I can drive 2 miles to my local Target and buy a Sonos system. :-(. I would love to see a touch screen based Boom, but I am

Re: [slim] 2 years and counting

2011-10-21 Thread Mark Miksis
Muele;664648 Wrote: Now that the Revue and Squeezebox are getting fused together via Squeezebox-server/LMS, Logitech will kill Squeeze the day that they pull the plug on Revue. And that day is just around the corner. Interesting. I have a Revue and consider it to be a huge disappointment.

Re: [slim] 2 years and counting

2011-10-21 Thread slate
Mark Miksis;664676 Wrote: Interesting. I have a Revue and consider it to be a huge disappointment. Google seems poised to do a Google TV 2.0 relaunch. We'll have to wait and see whether Logitech rolls the dice on Google TV again. You do not have to wait for long, as LMS/SBS 7.7 is tied

Re: [slim] 2 years and counting

2011-10-21 Thread erland
Mark Miksis;664676 Wrote: I suspect that there's still a lot of churn left in the market for online streaming and cloud music services. So do I and as long as there is a need someone is going to fill it, it might be Logitech or it might be someone else, but if there is a market someone

Re: [slim] 2 years and counting

2011-10-21 Thread Mark Miksis
erland;664683 Wrote: 5 years is a very long time in this business, how many other music players on the market can you guarantee works with the latest music services 5 years in the future ? Sure. My point was simply that the statement about squeezeboxes working for a long time without