Re: [slim] FYI - New Rhapsody Cloud Sync

2012-10-02 Thread MeSue
wnshall wrote: > Can you elaborate on what you mean by "... all mixed up with my local > music."? My expectation is that once Rhapsody has synced your local > music collection, My Library on Rhapsody would display > Albums/Artists/Tracks from both your local music library and your > previously e

Re: [slim] Playlist limit of 500?

2012-10-02 Thread MelonMonkey
Wow, the lowly ARM-CPU-powered empeg car stereo maintained playlists longer than 30k tracks easily, shuffling, reshuffling, changing track order, adding tracks, removing tracks, all without skipping a beat. There seems to be some serious inefficiency and possible underdevelopment with SB's playli

Re: [slim] Playlist limit of 500?

2012-10-02 Thread azinck3
MelonMonkey wrote: > Wow, the lowly ARM-CPU-powered empeg car stereo maintained playlists > longer than 30k tracks easily, shuffling, reshuffling, changing track > order, adding tracks, removing tracks, all without skipping a beat. > There seems to be some serious inefficiency and possible > und

Re: [slim] Blog.Logitech: An Open Letter to Squeezebox Fans

2012-10-02 Thread MeSue
Ikabob wrote: > > LOGITECH is a very reputable company and I do not believe they want to > injure their reputation by breaching their word to so many trusting > consumers. They'd have a lot to lose credibility-wise in the future. So, > I believe the director of products, an official representati

Re: [slim] Blog.Logitech: An Open Letter to Squeezebox Fans

2012-10-02 Thread erland
It seems like the some more blog comments now have been moderated, at least a few more is now visible including some answers. There wasn't much news, but a few things were clarified: - They "actively" plan to support mysqueezebox.com for the "foreseeable future", so people who are worried it wil

Re: [slim] Blog.Logitech: An Open Letter to Squeezebox Fans

2012-10-02 Thread JJZolx
> Logitech builds cool and well constructed hardware, but if the device > relies on software stay away - the products that depend on code > eventually fall behind the curve and Logitech does not seem to have the > resources or consistent coding practices to keep up fixing it, so they > loose inter

Re: [slim] Blog.Logitech: An Open Letter to Squeezebox Fans

2012-10-02 Thread JJZolx
erland wrote: > However, the next step for Logitech is now to show if they are really > committed to support Squeezebox users and make the new UE product line a > success or if the answers are just empty words. "Next step"? How so? What does Logitech gain from continuing to support Squeezebox? F

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] Orange Squeeze 1.0 for Android Released

2012-10-02 Thread db122
jimbobvfr400 wrote: > Really liking this so far. > > I do have a weird issue with the way it works when you select tracks. If > I choose play in the default option in preferences then as it should it > adds the whole album, so if I choose artist - album - track as I > normally do, if I choose s

Re: [slim] Blog.Logitech: An Open Letter to Squeezebox Fans

2012-10-02 Thread epoch1970
erland wrote: > They will not provide an upgrade path for the Touch or any other > Squeezebox except for Squeezebox Radio. Hopefully this means they have > an UE product without built-in speakers in their roadmap, if they don't, > the UE Smart Radio line is more or less doomed at its current pri

Re: [slim] Blog.Logitech: An Open Letter to Squeezebox Fans

2012-10-02 Thread azinck3
epoch1970 wrote: > A UE radio without speakers is called a bluetooth-capable smartphone. I > doubt they want to try the audio-video combo receiver any time soon, and > the swift demise of google's Q doesn't vote in favor of an Internet-only > hifi-class receiver either. > I wouldn't bet the next

Re: [slim] Blog.Logitech: An Open Letter to Squeezebox Fans

2012-10-02 Thread erland
JJZolx wrote: > "Next step"? How so? What does Logitech gain from continuing to support > Squeezebox? Financially, nothing. $0. > > Beyond keeping mysb.com afloat, what are you expecting in terms of > support? An updated server that addresses the many hundreds of valid > bugs on file? Repairs of

Re: [slim] Playlist limit of 500?

2012-10-02 Thread cparker
MelonMonkey wrote: > Wow, the lowly ARM-CPU-powered empeg car stereo maintained playlists > longer than 30k tracks easily, shuffling, reshuffling, changing track > order, adding tracks, removing tracks, all without skipping a beat. > There seems to be some serious inefficiency and possible > und

Re: [slim] Blog.Logitech: An Open Letter to Squeezebox Fans

2012-10-02 Thread JJZolx
erland wrote: > Based on the responses, I would expect a bug correction now and then, > maybe a bit less active than what we have seen during the last 12 months > (after the Revue shutdown). It couldn't get much less active. Face it. It's dead.

Re: [slim] Blog.Logitech: An Open Letter to Squeezebox Fans

2012-10-02 Thread erland
JJZolx wrote: > It couldn't get much less active. > > Face it. It's dead. > It answers when I ping it, so something must be still alive :-) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this

Re: [slim] Blog.Logitech: An Open Letter to Squeezebox Fans

2012-10-02 Thread pallfreeman
MeSue wrote: > > This is something from the Logitech forum thread about the NuLOOQ, but > it seems appropriate here: > > http://forums.logitech.com/t5/Design-Controllers-and/NuLooq-Navigator-in-CS4/m-p/305697#M582 The last post in that thread is November 2011. Did Logitech ever release the "so

Re: [slim] Blog.Logitech: An Open Letter to Squeezebox Fans

2012-10-02 Thread pssc
cncb wrote: > A Raspberry Pi dedicated to running a full-screen version of Squeezeplay > with digital audio output seems almost perfect... I am doing my best seem to be mostly alsa diver issues being the main stoppers that said I have had overs two hours of perfect audio out...(doh jinxed it jus

Re: [slim] Blog.Logitech: An Open Letter to Squeezebox Fans

2012-10-02 Thread epoch1970
Mnyb and others before him wrote: > Humor is much better than the other response you can get when saying > something wrong/silly or stupid. > Are routerhero completely unaware of the slow death the whole squeezebox > ecosystem has been put trough for years ?… It took some time before I decided wh

Re: [slim] Blog.Logitech: An Open Letter to Squeezebox Fans

2012-10-02 Thread MeSue
pallfreeman wrote: > The last post in that thread is November 2011. Did Logitech ever release > the "source code" (drivers, I presume)? Not as far as I know. MeSue's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?useri

Re: [slim] Blog.Logitech: An Open Letter to Squeezebox Fans

2012-10-02 Thread GeeJay
erland wrote: > It seems like the some more blog comments now have been moderated, at > least a few more is now visible including some answers. > > There wasn't much news, but a few things were clarified: > > > - They will not provide an upgrade path for the Touch or any other > Squeezebo

Re: [slim] Blog.Logitech: An Open Letter to Squeezebox Fans

2012-10-02 Thread pippin
Well, do we seriously believe they build up all of the new infrastructure just for a re-branded radio? pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/

Re: [slim] Blog.Logitech: An Open Letter to Squeezebox Fans

2012-10-02 Thread dsdreamer
pippin wrote: > Well, do we seriously believe they build up all of the new > infrastructure just for a re-branded radio? It is not such a big investment for them in these days of virtual servers and CDNs. They could be testing the market for a simplified (reduced functionality) device before tak