excalibur;677214 Wrote: > > This September was indeed black - And I hope you will reconsider your > license idea. I urge you to. I enjoyed my music more before having to > pay also for your plugins. Don't put another nail in SB's coffin trying > to profit from a great idea. The platform is not strong enough. > I'm sorry you are disappointed, but the alternative for me would have been to abandon my plugins completely as I couldn't justify spending so much time on them without getting some kind of compensation. The result would have been that more or less none of them would have worked with 7.6 and 7.7 today. The amount of donations before the commercial scheme was nowhere near to what you seems to believe it was.
If anyone else (third party or Logitech) would like to maintain, support and host my plugins/applets for free (or for a lower price), this is something I would would love and even encourage, just contact me if this is something anyone is seriously interested in doing. The plugins are still licensed under GPL or BSD licenses, so anyone is free to do any modifications and redistribute these without any permission from me. I've several times tried to get Logitech to include similar functionality in the core product, even offered to help them doing it for free, but there has never been any interest in this, probably because the functionality my plugins provide isn't a focus area for Logitech. excalibur;677214 Wrote: > > but will now seriously investigate how I can churn to iTunes for the > same functionality than with your plugins. I just hate to leave the > 'free' world of SB thinking. > I think you can accomplish more or less everything related to ratings and smart playlists through iTunes if you like this, the only requirement is that iTunes is always running on the computer running Squeezebox Server and that you use the iTunes integration in Squeezebox Server during scanning. If you want to be able to change track ratings through Squeezebox remotes, you can use the "iTunes Update" plugin which will write ratings to iTunes. Smart playlists is definitely supported by iTunes and I think you will have access to them through the "Playlist" menu on your Squeezebox. The only part that I don't think is supported is to play a playlist bit by bit, I think the smart iTunes playlists exposed to Squeezebox Server Playlists menu will typically be quite large. Another similar option is to use MusicIP integration in Squeezebox Server, but that won't allow you to change ratings using a Squeezebox remote control unless you have a TrackStat license that can write ratings to MusicIP. excalibur;677214 Wrote: > > I would hate to learn that SB suffers the same destiny as > automanufacturer SAAB (also an outstanding but marginal company that is > about to implode). > So would I, but I'm pretty sure Logitech would have included the functionality in my plugins as standard functionality if it would be the difference between success or failure of the Squeezebox products. If you feel support for ratings and smart playlists is the key functionality to avoid a failure, I would like you to at least put your vote on these two enhancement requests: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=142 http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=380 -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets (both free and commercial)' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland). If you like to encourage future presence on this forum and/or third party plugin/applet development, 'consider purchasing some plugins' (http://license.isaksson.info)) Interested in music discovery ? See 'Social Music Discovery (SMD)' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=656713) project. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90410 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
