Let's see one thing very clear when it comes to fancy features like smarter playlists, on-the-fly transcoding to fancy formats and sample rates and especially complex library management: there is NOTHING else on the market for streaming clients that even comes close to the Squeezebox in this regard.
Yes, Apple and Sonos are easier to set up, yes, Sonos supports more streaming services, yes, there is PC software that can do much more. But if you want to stream to a HiFi device and you want to manage your own library in complex and flexible ways, all others will give you folders, artists, genres, tracks and playlists and that's it. No fancy playlist management, no fancy statistics stuff, most are limited to a few sample rates and format, no France metadata plugins. All of this you only get on the Squeezebox. To all those complaining about the lack of additional feature creep in the basic Squeezebox product: be happy about what you've got and try 3rd party stuff because you have no idea about what you might lose should the Squeezebox once really go away or should Logitech continue to mainly focus on mainstream features. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96134 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
