... > > The issues with SqueezeNetwork are another story. > Only Slim knows how scalable it is. Obviously > it's costing money - servers aren't free, nor is > bandwidth! The breaking point will come when they > are forced to start charging for the service. Now > I like SqueezeNetwork, but if that were to happen > I'd just get all my Internet radio through > SlimServer. I suspect a lot of others might as > well. Personally, I don't see much value in > moving SqueezeNetwork functionality to the > Squeezebox firmware, even if it keeps the service > free, since I can just do this in SlimServer. I'd > rather not pay for increased Squeezebox processor > power just for that. >
I don't really use SqueezeNetwork much (or even Internet radio much, though I'm starting to more thanks to the Last.FM plugin). However, I wouldn't be surprised if the goal is to make it something a lot more compelling than it is now.... Of course, to the target user it's quite compelling as is. > But this is balanced out by what's coming in > SlimServer 7.0. SlimServer is becoming so > complex, low power servers like NAS devices are > having difficulty running it. 7.0 aims to break > up SlimServer into modules. While desktop and > laptop PCs have immense resources to run > SlimServer and should handle SlimServer 7.0 > without much difficulty, the problem arises when > these low-power servers try to tackle it. So > adding complexity to SlimServer and reducing or > maintaining the same complexity in the Squeezebox > may be reaching its limits. > Then we can run Slimserver on Beowulf clusters of small NAS devices!!!! > Hopefully you don't see my response as > confrontational. It's interesting to speculate on > future trends as it relates to our favourite toy. :-) > quite :) -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! "I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander" - traditional _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
