erland;218503 Wrote: > > > Now, saying all this, there is a solution to this problem which I also > mentioned in my previous post. > - Leave the SB as a thin device > - Sell a hardware solution with pre-installed, pre-configured > SlimServer. >
I think that is a huge opportunity for someone (a ton of people use Qnap's for that reason): a commodity slim-pc of some sort (there are a ton of these) with a slimcd for the OS/Software and a hard drive for music. Some simple scripts for basic ripping/tagging (though it should probably use Gracenote (eww) since cddb sorta sucks) with the music store exported as SMB for easy manipulation/retagging from Windows. I'm not sure that is in Logitech's plans or if they want to leave that to others... but really that and a Nokia770/800 would beat a Sonos any day. (Especially if you allow external USB drives for additional storage as well as backups.) The SlimCD approach would allow for a simple "oops I bricked it" ... boot from the CD (the good thing about PC architecture in this case is the Boot rom....) and from a web interface you could "reinstall" without wiping the music. Let's see: the guy who did the SlimCD now happens to work for Slim/Logi... As does the guy who did the nifty Nokia skin... Buy one, hide it in a cabinet and only feed it when you get new music. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37279 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
