------------------------------------------------------------------------ A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73698 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Question: Is third party plugins/applets important for your Squeezebox purchases ? - I won't buy any more Squeezebox products unless support for third party development is prioritized - I won't buy any more Squeezebox products unless the third party plugins I rely on is supported - I use third party plugins but I would still consider buying more Squeezebox products without them - I don't use third party plugins so they aren't important to my Squeezebox purchases ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pale Blue Ego;504777 Wrote: > > > Logitech should buy Erland's plugins and incorporate them into the > standard code. It's crazy that there is no rating system in the > Logitech code. > > Time for them to stop riding the backs of the much smarter volunteer > army. Can't argue with that, in fact that should apply to quite a few plugins. Whilst the bare bones SB is a good music playing (note the playing not streaming) platform, the plugins make it so much more than the sum of the parts. Losing the Itunes updater plugin and Alien/BBC Iplayer would be complete deal breakers for me. Likewise Grab playlist(or switch player), remove played songs should all be part of the core code. In the past I used erlands plugins an awful lot, and they do fill in a lot of the gaps that SB has, particularly if you have any interest in classical music - not I guess the target of the Logitech marketeers. I guess the question is would I have bought my first SB without the plug in functionality? The answer is yes, because I did not know that they existed. However after many happy, if occasionally frustrating years of use, I would not want to contemplate a 'system' without them. Another question for Logitech - what's the point of having two very good displays without all the neat third party screen savers? May as well buy a receiver if that's going to be the way forward. I really do hope that Logitech kiss and make up with their most loyal supporters if not then the future for SB does not look good. After all who's going to test their often shaky software out in the wild for free?? Hey ho 2 x SB2, 1 x SB3, 1 x Boom, 1 x Radio -- TimM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TimM's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1204 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73698 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
