exile wrote: > my reason for stating that the squeezebox has been skewed towards the pc > is based on music editing programs such as media monkey that are > predominantly pc only in develoment and the number of plugins over the > years that were built only for the windows environment (i.e.-moose).
Most people on this planet who use computers, and most in the Logitech target market (North America, Europe, Pacific Rim, etc.) use Windows. Most developers use Windows. But I reject your claim that the SqueezeBox is biased towards Windows. I specifically selected it, way back when I bought my first SB-1, because it was not biased towards Windows, and all the rest were. > but I would say too that to operate your server on a platform other > than what you use everyday for your normal computing seems needlessly > inconvenient. You are entitled to your opinion, but servers have different needs. My first SlimDevices server went over 18 months without being touched, and without a reboot. That is rare if not unheard of for either OS-X or Windows. Right now, I'm beta testing 7.5 and while the server is fairly stable, I'm not getting the months of constant service that I used to when I ran production slimserver/squeezecenter/squeezeboxserver > also, are you actually serious pat that you've never even taken itunes > for a test drive? that's quite precious of you if it's true. Yes. Never touched iTunes. It has zero appeal to me. First, it requires an operating system that I chose to not use. I will use Windows if someone pays me to, and as a professional developer, sometimes I am paid to do so. Been doing it since Windows/386 2.11 was current. Use o my Squeezeboxen, from SB1 to Duet to Transporter to Boom and Radio, is not something I do when being paid for professional development. Second, for ages, it was all DRM'd lossy music. I care neither for DRM'd anything, and I don't bother with lossy compressed music. All of my 856 albums with 10444 songs by 530 artists are flac. Once you have used a dozen or so operating systems, as I have, going from one to the next is really not that big of a deal. Sure, the commands are different, but the concepts are universal. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
