Soulkeeper;664454 Wrote: > Oh, so this is why Custom Browse doesn't work anymore (I haven't read > this thread before). I occasionally used it to browse artist by letter. > Oh well. I guess I can do without. > > It was of course noble of Erland to make this plugin for free > originally. But marketing-wise, I can't help thinking that nag-ware > (or, well, anything, really) would have been more psychologically > effective than the give-and-then-take-away approach. > > After all, software, and especially UI, is at least 50% psychology. Too > many developers fail to realize that.
I doubt marketing came into any initial plans, it was probably born from a technical interest in improving squeezeboxserver, then as the years have gone by the overhead of running the plugins has increased - at that point I think for Erland it was a stop the plugins or get some financial compensation -- socistep ------------------------------------------------------------------------ socistep's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18860 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90975 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
