GeeJay wrote: > It would have to retain the ability to run random playlists based on a > variety of factors, such as genres, years, ratings, etc. > I doubt you will ever get anything more than random for genres from Logitech, but if they decided to open UE Music Library to third party plugins there might be a chance a third party developers can provide this. Currently Logitech doesn't make it easy to install plugins in UE Music Library and also not to install UE Smart Radio device itself, which both would be needed to make it interesting for third parties to embrace the new platform. It's still possible to install things by activating development menus and manually copying and unzipping files, but it's a lot harder compared to how it works in LMS and Squeezebox.
GeeJay wrote: > > I would have to be able to control it with a full functioning remote or > iPhone app such as iPeng. > Logitech provides a native iPhone app for UE Smart Radio in comparison to the slow web based iPhone app available from Logitech for Squeezebox. I've just "upgraded" one of my Radios to be a UE Smart Radio and the speed of the remote is pretty good compared to the old one. However, the UE Smart Radio iPhone app is still in "work in progress" state, except for the speed it still doesn't feel like a native iPhone app from a user interface design perspective, but hopefully this is something Logitech is currently working on so it's ready when they start shipping the UE Smart Radio. The existing third party apps won't work, but I guess there is a chance some of the current third party developers will embrace the UE Smart Radio and make a UE Smart Radio iPhone/iPad/Android remote control, based on what I've seen from the current Logitech app I'm not too optimistic that it will be anywhere near what you get from iPeng and SqueezePad today. It doesn't even have any alphabetic bar, so if you have 1000 artists and want to reach the ones at the end you have to slide a lot on the screen, and I haven't found any support for playlists, not even viewing the current one played, but I assume this is just something they haven't implemented yet but something that will be there before they start shipping. GeeJay wrote: > > ReplayGain support and cross fade are important as well (I haven't > checked yet to see if these exist on the UE platform). > Replay gain seems to be supported already, at least it exists in the settings menus, and so does cross fade. GeeJay wrote: > > Of course, I'm assuming Logitech will come up with something other than > the Smart Radio to allow me to play music through my stereo, and have it > sound good. I'm also assuming UE players will sync as well with each > other as my current SBs do. > Yes, this is the key, it's a bit worrying that they decided to announce the UE Smart Radio without any indication what their plans are for the living room setup. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96191 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
