Thanks for all the good suggestions. No offence intended to anyone, but I think that Squeezebox is designed for geeks and iTunes is designed for real people. I am a geek, and for a long time I thought I was happy scrolling through 1000 albums on my Squeezebox looking for something that I was in the mood for. And I thought that Squeezebox was great. I bought one of the original SLIMP3's and I have been using Squeezeboxes ever since.
My wife always refused to use the Squeezebox and I could never understand why. But then she introduced me to the wonderful world of iTunes and Macs and I discovered what she has been trying to tell me for years: The engineers in Apple design their gadgets to work in a way that is not only intuitive, but in a way that makes it easy for real people to use. Of course, I can "brute-force" squeezebox to allow me to do things like allocate sub-gendres, or I can stoically scroll through my 1000 or 10,000 albums and say that I am happy. But life can be better than that. With iTunes, I can create playlists of albums by simply clicking and dragging on my computer, and I can easly change my playlists as my moods change and as I buy and rip more CDs. iTunes is designed for real people and it makes life so easy. I have been a fan of Squeezeboxes for many years, but I am starting to realize that other products are moving faster than Squeezebox. If Apple develops a player like a squeezebox device that works with iTunes, squeezebox will be history. -- rodt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rodt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3732 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81778 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
