paulster wrote: > I wrote to them as well, pointing out that I'd simply be moving to > Spotify rather than giving Beats a chance if they aren't going to > continue support for Squeezebox. My vote alone won't count for much, but > hopefully lots of people will get in touch with them. Fwiw, here is the email I sent and their response. (As a side note, I sent my email to both supp...@beatsmusic.com and iancrog...@beatsmusic.com. The latter is the address on the From: line on a message from the Beats CEO, Ian C. Rogers. That address bounced with -"The email account that you tried to reach does not exist."- Score minus 1 point for pretending to be accessible.)
Dear Mr. Rogers, Thanks for your update message. I have been a MOG subscriber for a couple years and have really enjoyed it for listening music in many different ways: discovering new music, looking into artists similar to artists I like, playing old albums that I had on vinyl or tape but never bought on CD or online, etc. It has been very good value for very little money. Almost all of my listening to MOG is through my Logitech Squeezebox network music system at home, which allows me to listen to MOG on decent-to-very-good audio equipment in any room in the house, and even outside on the patio. This worked (and still works until the plug gets pulled on MOG) because MOG provided an API to Logitech Squeezebox developers so that they could write a plugin for the Squeezebox server. I very much hope that Beats Music will have the foresight to provide similar capabilities with Beats Music. If Beats is not made accessible for Squeezebox users, I do not see any way that I would be making the switch from MOG to Beats Music. Rather, I would be inclined to switch to a service such as Rhapsody or Spotify. Interestingly, at one time or another over the past five years I have used MOG, Rhapsody, and Spotify, and had settled on MOG as being the best service of the three. It will be a sad day to lose it. I hope that you and your team will seriously consider providing a Beats Music plugin for Logitech Squeezebox. Best regards, - Hey [myfirstname] Thanks for contacting Beats Music Support! All the reasons you have listed for enjoying MOG, Beats Music has improved upon--especially suggesting new music that is catered specifically to you! Our human curated playlists and music suggestions blow the competition out of the water! However, at this point, Logitech Squeezebox is not one of our supported devices. We are constantly expanding and we do take suggestions from our listeners very seriously, so I will be forwarding this our team so they can see about possibly implementing this in the future. Thank you again for your interest in Beats Music and thank you for supporting MOG. We would not be where we are without the continued support and feedback from listeners like you! If you have any other questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us again! Let Beats Music provide the soundtrack to your life~ Beats Music Listener Support - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100477 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
