My 2 pence: I wouldn't want to pay any extra for the hardware required to accomodate external storage. It seems like a silly idea to me, but like others have said, that's MY OPINION! (although I am right of course ;-) ) A more flexible option might be for slimserver to monitor external storage on the server machine and make this available from the squeezebox as soon as possible. I would have thought this could be easily implemented with the current squeezebox.
I think slimdevices need to be very careful with adding new features. You may think your own budget is much the same as everyone else's, but for me the squeezebox was right on the limit here in the UK. Very few of my friends would want to spend a similar amount on something like this. For me the squeezebox makes it possible to use great audio hardware and a great interface with my own dirt cheap server hardware in the background. As soon as server type functions get moved into the squeezebox the cost will surely rocket. Squeezebox 4 should have yet a larger/higher res screen! And definately VFD, nothing else can compare. You can stick your colour screens where the sun don't shine ;-) -- ehjones ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ehjones's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5218 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30399 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
