bluegaspode;636471 Wrote:
> I'm just thinking of how marketing would cope with a Touch Pro / Touch
> II / Touch Base Station.
>
> "Now it really works. All USB-Drives + Large Libraries"
> would hit the nail, but doesn't sound all too good.
>
> Guess they'd need to implement some new special features (hopefully
> that doesn't cost much in development, but can be printed in large
> letters on the package).
>
> - Access to Samba-File-Shares (to better compete with Sonos) ?
> - "Touch Base Station" ... missing audio outs (what a waste ...) ?
> - Upgraded Visuals/Screensavers ?
>
Think "VortexBox Appliance" but cheaper:
- Automatic ripping and tagging
- Simple small display with small letters mainly used for
troubleshooting
- Built-in player
- Built-in Squeezebox Server
This will give people a choice so they could either choose:
1. Logitech Squeezebox Touch
- Central color display in the room that shows what's playing
- Reliable highend audio
- Use a computer of their choice or mysqueezebox.com as server
or
2. Logitech Media Server
- Silent and fast media server, both for video and audio streaming
- Built-in CDROM for automatic ripping and tagging
- Use external USB drive or external NAS for storage
- Built-in mid-end audio hardware with auto output for people who don't
care about audio quality but want a player in the room where they have
the server
This way people who want highend audio or a central display will go for
the Touch, people that primarily want a silent fast server will go for
the Logitech Media Server and people who want both will get both.
The CDROM could maybe just be a USB port which allows an USB CDROM to
be connected but with todays prices on CDROM's I suspect a built-in one
might be justified.
The tricky part is going to be how to handle the built-in server in the
Touch, it's going to make users upset if it's just dropped but Logitech
probably don't want to spend a lot of support/maintenance time to
maintain it.
(For those that wonders, LMS mentioned in the beta section of the forum
is just software, I just reused the name above since it would also work
for new hardware)
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