erland;494782 Wrote: > So what's your answer to the following questions ? > - What does the Squeezebox devices do a lot better than competing > products today ? > - What features could be added to the Squeezebox devices to make them a > lot better than the competing products ?
to answer what does it do better: really the only reason i use SBS is b/c you have to, to use the hardware, and i want to use the hardware, b/c of the audio quality. i don't use any sync features, but i plan to eventually. i'm not sure what else it does "better" than other products, let alone what i'd care about. to answer my wants/beefs: i want a low power SBS server, a piece of hardware, that integrates well with the mysb.com website. i want logitech to push out the updates [optionally] for it. i'd like it to morph into a social networking type site for music/video geeks, (think lastfm meets facebook). i'd like SBS and some clients to support video. i'd like full dlna/upnp support. i'd like mysb.com to offer me lost cost hosting of both SBS and my music. (you could upload your stuff to them and they would host it for you, and even power your clients) i'd like the webui to be a LOT better. its navigation sucks. it has this powerful database behind it, powering it, and yet you can't have but one master list at a time. (i can't on the fly switch between browsing artists and albumartists for instance). i should be able to toggle album art anywhere. the webui is really outdated as a main interface to begin with. native SBS apps would be nice, (squeezeplay is kind of a step in the right direction). plugins for winamp or itunes or whathave you to power the clients would also be good. SBS profiles would be good, to support multiple users, libraries, etc... also, addinga "smartviews" feature like winamps would be good, so you could create custom views (subsets) of your scanned stuff. i'd like them to include an automatic software feedback system, ie. error reporting, stat reporting, pref logging, etc, so they can see what errors people are getting, what prefs are used, basically how the app is used, to help inform future development and fixes. it would help the problems i have on some net streams for instance, that SBS can't handle as reliably as winamp can. i'm kinda surprised by this post erland, considering your disillusionment with their 3rd party developers. -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 & sbc (my home) / sbr (parent's home) - sbs 7.4.2b - win xp pro sp3 ie8 - p4(ht) 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 - 35k mp3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 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
