Wish you the best with Sonos. For me the 65k library size limit is a problem (of course I don't actually listen to 65k tracks, but who wants to spend the time to cull the tracks that -don't- get played?).
Am pleased with my SB3s, Booms, and Transporter. It (now) works reliably (as long as I don't upgrade SC often) and is easy for uninitiated users to figure out. I too have avoided the receiver and controller. Guests often wonder how this "wireless music thing" works, but I've stopped explaining it because it is beyond my average tech savvy friend's grasp to reliably run SS/SC and a network of players without getting too frustrated in the process of making it all work (and I live a pretty tech savvy bit of the world). <rant> It should be very clear that as of 2009 many of the sort of people interested in this product no longer have (or want) a desktop PC, and running SC on a laptop is an unattractive proposition (SC gorges on memory like few other consumer apps, and people like to suspend/sleep their laptops to save battery power!). I think a PogoPlug style SC7 appliance with USB drives and *no wireless NIC* would help a lot (tell people to plug it into their router. I've never seen/heard of an a SB owner without a Linksys/D-Link/whatever router). Put LEDs on it to indicate when that it has a connection to the Internet (or SqueezeNetwork, or just a DHCP lease), a connection to 1 or more SB players (perhaps it could blink or change color when it finds un-configured players), and a light to indicate when SC is ready/rescanning the library. USB hard drives are cheap and simplicity is golden, so don't over-feature it and make it a FreeNAS/WHS clone. PogoPlugs cost $99, but I think a SC appliance would be worth at least as much as a Boom, and I might even be persuaded to pay some sort of subscription fee for radio and ongoing SC updates (if this is what it would take to get better quality SC releases). My $0.02. More selfishly, can we have an officially supported iPod Touch interface and a modern (meaning fast & responsive) web interface to SC? </rant> -- syburgh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67040 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
