I think a tread like this is highlighting the different ways people uses the same product .
The original idea a decade ago was this client server aproach , where you -not- be sitting in front of your computer while playing music ,server is elsewhere in many cases not even having a monitor . You select music with the player interface(s) or third party remote app . Then the aproach of using the squeezebox as a remote soundcard and be using a pc as as music player in a more traditional way. If you only got one player then the only benefit here is that you don't have to run a very long spdiff cable . In this case it is quite clear that the servers web-UI does not match a normal music player software I'd that is what you are expecting . The web-UI aproach is because the server may very likely be running on another machine that also may not have a GUI . And now we have laptops , so these use cases distinction may not be so clear some people have their server on the coffe table ? I expect some paradigm shift with increasingly powerfull phones and tablets . I only experimentet a bit with moose way back, it could use a server on another machine so moose and server did not need to be on the same computer . What is missing is a desktop front end from Logitech for this kind of user. Some even dislikes the server aproach, and don't want to have a central music collection with tags and a dB on top of it . But just open folders on a pc and play , they migth have picked the wrong product a long cable may suit them better. A challenge here is that recent trend is that people have music collections distributed on several computers user accounts phones pods an tablets . A product that merges these collections in seamless way may have a future for many users . I do like the central music collection idea then distributed to multiple players . I also think the current implementation only skims on what you could do with a database aproach, it is very underused . Another limit is that the dB content is provided by the end user via tags, more content means more work . A future aproach with more sophisticated content etc provided automagically ? And then we have music streaming services :) that do away with whole concept of maintaining a music collection ripping etc , most people seems to just want music on tap in some way, but they wan't their music , here is the challenge for a good music service providing the user with his/her music with almost no work or input from the end user. Sorry for the rambling , but it is interesting there is so many ways you can get computer music, and also competing products and services a clear " killer app" has not emerged , people are to different . And there will be no one size fits all product either. IMO there are several large niches to cater for . LMS is good for the user with a large central and maintained music collection and multiple players . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95149 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
