snarlydwarf;566211 Wrote:
>
> 2) A SB Touch can serve multiple players: if you turn 'off' the Touch
> in the living room, you won't be able to play music it was serving to
> the Radio in the Kitchen. It's off. It doesn't do anything when off.
> People would be very annoyed.
>
Are you sure it would annoy people ?
It would definitively annoy people if you needed the Touch to be
playing to be able to play music on the Radio in the kitchen but would
it annoy them if the Touch would just have to be on ?
What if turning off the Touch would shutdown SBS and unmount the USB
drive, but still leave the other parts active. So a user can basically
just hit the power button and know that it's safe to disconnect the USB
drive afterwards ?
The Touch would still be active but this would make it really easy for
non technical users to understand when it's safe to disconnect the USB
drive. Also, the Touch would still be alive even though it's built-in
server wouldn't, so when you navigate into My Music on the Kitchen
Radio it would automatically turn on the Touch, mount the drive and
start the built-in server in the Touch.
Wouldn't something like that be easier for people to understand ?
I think it's important that the Touch isn't powered off completely, it
has to at least be possible to activate it using a remote or when
another player in the house want to play something. But it would
probably be acceptable if it went into a low power standby mode where
only the necessary parts that was needed to activate it remotely was
still turned on.
How does the Touch work when the built-in server is running ? Does it
spin down the USB drive as long as no player connected to the Touch is
playing music ?
Also, I think the scenarios might be a bit different when the built-in
server is used and when someone has an external server running on a
computer.
My thoughts are:
1.
It has to be simple how to disconnect a USB drive and we can't expect
people to format USB drive with Ext3 as long as Ext3 isn't supported by
the Windows formatting tools. It's not a problem if it works better with
Ext3 but it has too work good enough with a Windows formatted drive and
you shouldn't have to worry about loosing data on the drive.
2.
It's important that any device can go into a low power mode when it
isn't used, people worry about power usage for environmental reasons
today and we need to consider this if we like to keep living on this
planet in the future. There might be other kind of devices that are
bigger problems but just ignoring it isn't a good idea.
3.
The Touch might be serving other players, due to this it needs to be
possible to turn it on remotely without standing beside the Touch.
People that want to play music in their bedroom in the morning doesn't
want to be forced to get up and walk into the living room and push a
power button on the Touch to be able to start playing music on their
Radio in the bedroom.
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