few comments:
garym wrote:
don't panic. All your stuff will still work. The only current issue
I see is that the future hardware might not be compatible with existing
hardware. In terms of LMS and your own music. This can work forever
without logitech's intervention.
As noted elsewhere I think, this means never upgrading. My Synology NAS
has a click and install LMS, I use my NAS for lots of other things. I
now need to get a new one, only for music, and never upgrade it or patch
security holes etc... not great solution, but will have to be done.
mherger wrote:
Does this mean that in the event of one's internet connection going
down
(which used to happen frequently when I was with my former ISP, the
major UK ISP), the UE Radio cannot be controlled to play locally stored
music?
Yes, that's true.
Really bad. I have a very very flakey connection indeed in the
mountains of Italy and this means my whole house music system would not
work.
mherger wrote:
The trend, whether you and I like it or not, is online streaming. The
collector who has thousands (I'm not even talking about tens of
thousands!) of tracks on his disc and prefers to manage them over using
an online stereaming service is a dieing breed.
Not sure I agree, the biggest untapped segment will be the non techies
and non-early adopters who have hundreds of CDs and decide that it's
now probably time to embrace music stored centrally somehow and want a
fairly decent quality solution.
I think the reason this never got mainstream was i) no end to end
process, including the ripping, for legal reasons, and ii) they could
not make the interfaces / setup idiot proof.
Here's what I see the needs to be source wise:
1. Local music ripped and stored on PC / NAS
2. Listen to Internet Radio
3. Listen through services like LastFM
4. Upload your collection online so you always have it wherever you are
Then you have how we listen
A) living room stereo high end
B) kitchen / bedroom style booms
C) On computer
D) Mobile Players
Let's compare old and new on this basis
1A SB: perfect with transporter / touch / classic
1A UE: Not available
1B SB: Perfect, no internet required, no lag
1B UE: Available but flawed.. can i plug a subwoofer in like i do now in
kitchen boom?
1C SB: Easy if you want this
1C UE: Not seen anything that suggests one can do this - use winamp
again?
1D SB: Not available
1D UE: Still not available
SB -- UE
2A - yes no
2B - yes yes
2C - yes no?
3A --- yes--- no
3B --- yes --- yes
3C --- why? --no?
4A/B/C/D - no -- still no
which means we lose a load of stuff, and do not gain any significant
killer features like online collection to mobile devices or
something...
in addition a proportion like to have a dedicated touch / duet
controller setup at least to go with their hi-fi living room setup, and
that is now relegated to mobile apps.
my kids won't have smartphones for another 5-6 years
all in all doing a market analysis of the needs versus the products does
not seem to have been high on their list...
oh and i see the touch is no $700+ in US, and i cannot find them in
Italy / UK for much less than £350, so I have found out about this a few
months too late :'(
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