Please read my post again. It was more like a technical description. I indeed forgot the capability to sync with other Squeezeboxes, but apart from that, none of what you mention is available without the local server. The other conscious (and clearly dumb, IMHO) decision they were making was to not allow support for 3rd party plugins (controller Apps _can_ be supported as you can see from iPeng UE)
You have to see where they were coming from (and again: I'm not saying that a lot of what they actually implemented was a good idea, except for the very _idea_ of doing away with server switching, that was a wise one, which doesn't help if the implementation isn't good!) You say they had two years, but that's not the case. From what you hear, they had actually planned to shut down the product completely and only re-started development sometimes during last year, a few months before the actual UE launch. And they had already dismantled a lot of the team as you will probably have noticed on this very forum. Their idea for the restart was to simplify things, focus on online streaming media and do away with server switching. The result was that they tied the product to MySqueezebox.com and that's the functionality you see today. It's very similar to the functionality a Squeezebox has with MySqueezebox.com, that was my comment. There are almost no changes to the product itself if you look at it from that perspective. The menus look the same, work the same, the supported services are the same and work the same. OK, some things like alarms and scrobbling got broken, I have no idea how that could happen and someone forgot that the web interface on MySB might eventually get used. Hey, EVERYBODY has an iPhone or an Android, right? They _also_ added a capability, based on LMS, to play music from your own computer. That must not be confused with the capabilities the Squeezeboxes had through LMS because it's clearly isn't the same thing. The main reason for this is that - since the UE Radio runs with uesmartradio.com, not the local server - the capability had to be newly developed on the online service side. It's one of the two things they really developed (the other one being the new Apps). So again: technically, this is a Squeezebox running on MySB with some added capability to play files and albums (but not playlists) from iTunes or your files. This is _not_ a Squeezebox running with LMS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97331 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
