SC7 presents a nice opportunity for alternate web music services. Since SC7 makes all the SqueezeNetwork services available while you're connected to your own SC7 host, many users will probably never connect directly to SqueezeNetwork. Any alternate music service could easily write a SqueezeCenter plugin for their service -- without having to sign any agreements with Logitech. This is really nice for the user... potentially at Logitech's expense, as I certainly expect they're getting some revenue from the premium services on SqueezeNetwork like Rhapsody.
I guess you could argue that's "second class" service, but it's far better than closed systems like Sonos. Heck, thanks to Greg Brown, Sirius radio subscribers had access to Sirius through their Squeezeboxes for more than a year (IIRC) before the lawyers, developers, and PR flacks at Sonos got around to providing any Sirius support on Sonos. Maybe you'd call that third class service... :-) -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitcher SleepFade StatusFirst VolumeLock ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41626 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/squeezenetwork
