Re: [slim] UE Discontinued - clearly I missed the memo!

2014-03-27 Thread aubuti
slimfast wrote: > Logitech had an incredibly well designed system of top-notch hardware > and open and super-flexible software and managed to do absolutely > nothing of note with it except first lobotomise it to UE and then > completely discontinue it. I'm not going to get into a whole post-morte

Re: [slim] UE Discontinued - clearly I missed the memo!

2014-03-27 Thread slimfast
ModelCitizen wrote: > This company is a car crash. Agreed - there's clearly money to be made from 'network connected' home music systems as evidenced by the fact that Sonos are currently running a TV advertising campaign in the UK for their products. Logitech had an incredibly well designed sys

Re: [slim] UE Discontinued - clearly I missed the memo!

2014-03-26 Thread RonM
slimfast wrote: > Better hurry up and revert my 'still in an unopened box' spare UE Radio > over to Squeezebox Radio then. > > I had a spare one which I had been leaving in the unopened original > packaging in case I wanted to eBay it at some point in the future but I > think I'd better get it o

Re: [slim] UE Discontinued - clearly I missed the memo!

2014-03-26 Thread slimfast
Better hurry up and revert my 'still in an unopened box' spare UE Radio over to Squeezebox Radio then. I had a spare one which I had been leaving in the unopened original packaging in case I wanted to eBay it at some point in the future but I think I'd better get it on to Squeezebox firmware pron

Re: [slim] UE Discontinued - clearly I missed the memo!

2014-03-25 Thread yeomanspc
Just upgrade to 7.8 - been on various versions of that for a year or more and it works just fine - including BBC iplayer. It's a shame they stopped making the players, but you can still pick a few up either new or used if you want more, or use RPi, Ipeng, Squeeze Commander as players, or the qual

Re: [slim] UE Discontinued - clearly I missed the memo!

2014-03-25 Thread Apesbrain
ModelCitizen wrote: > This company is a car crash. Thanks, your post reminded me of two of my favorite songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz9WNOkVTWo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo3ZnHJ0KTQ Apesbrain's Profile: htt

Re: [slim] UE Discontinued - clearly I missed the memo!

2014-03-25 Thread Apesbrain
I don't think anything Logitech does would prevent you listening to your ripped CD collection. Your best bet to avoid issues with streaming that depend on mysqueezebox.com is to update to the latest LMS 7.8 when it gets a general release: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?100898-Help-

Re: [slim] UE Discontinued - clearly I missed the memo!

2014-03-25 Thread ModelCitizen
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[slim] UE Discontinued - clearly I missed the memo!

2014-03-25 Thread Sb42
Just read at http://forums.logitech.com/t5/Logitech-UE/UE-Smart-Radio-discontinued/td-p/1198987 that the UE Smartradio has been discontinued. So where does this leave the Squeezebox/UE line? If the hardware is no longer being sold then is there any life left in my player? I know this question has