usch;495192 Wrote: > Not from -any- drive on the network, only from USB drives that are > directly connected to the Touch. ... I would really like to use it as a > standalone server, but its capabilities seem way too limited, given that > plugins are not fully supported and you already need a plugin to do such > simple things as automatic playlists based on track ratings. >
In that case, here's how I think the Touch could turn Squeezebox line into a successful semi-mass market product: 1) Logitech should sell a few external drives in varying sizes appropriate for music storage. Ideally these would come with housing that looks related to the Touch and can share a power adapter with the Touch. Audio users shouldn't feel like they're shopping for computer parts. 2) Make sure that a non-technical user can configure all their players with the most important features using some combination of the server Touch (the one that hosts the music drive), the other players on the network, and a separate admin utility that can run on a computer on the network. By "most important features" I don't mean all plugins, but I would include lazy search because that is so essential to a usable system. I've heard that lazy search must be a separate plugin not provided by Logitech for legal reasons; if that's true, then Logitech needs to make it possible for someone to make a similar plugin for the Touch, even if there's not a more general plugin capacity. Couldn't smart playlists be set up with iTunes or similar programs? -- bruce ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bruce's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2955 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72534 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
