Is it all going to be music services then ? Is playing local files in any shape or form getting "old".
Thats makes some kind of sense, it neatly bypass all that work and money getting 100000 local files ripped tagged and scaned, for a small monthly fee ? The lets hope that logitech is not in for biggest part of the mass-market. There are plenty of music enthusiast and multi-room audio aficionados to get around , so a product for that big niche of people still interested in their music, not just shopping for a background soundtrack device. This group is prepared to pay a little more than the lowest possible price, an opening for products with a higher margin ? This seems to describe the current lot of owners. Then I add some more suggestions. *improved zone handling and controller roaming . * real multi user and multi-library handling. multiple users, with different music service accounts is not uncommon in the same household. So different user should be able to choose one squeezebox in the house and get *their* library and player settings display settings backgrounds accounts everything tied to the user not the box. This naturally leads to that: A player must be able to be registered on multiple mysbs.com accounts the account should be associated with the user not any hardware device . The user could choose to use any of the squeezeboxes in the house. This naturally leads to the next step, I should be able to use *any* squeezebox. Example visiting a friend , I just log on to box and hey presto it's connected to my account and it connects to my server over the internet ! * And expanding further, an idea for social networking, make it possible for other users to connect to our servers a "guest login" with limited rights ( naturally some mechanism to grant those rights and let people in must be designed) We could have some kind link in our forum headers. This would make fantastic discussions in music section, now come listen to this.. :) And I have to comply with pippin regarding setup and reliability. There is an good in-house example, the SB3 it is much easier to setup and handle than the new squeeze-play based thingys. -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: SB3 (soon to replaced by a Touch :) It is on preorder) Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Receiver (soon to be replaced by my SB3 and the SBRto be stuffed in a box in the attic ) I use a Controller various ir-remotes and a Eee-PC with squeezeplay to controll this ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72512 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
