gw43 wrote: > I'll take your points in order. > > I'm not having a snipe at Logitech - when the Touch worked it was great. > What I came home from work and wanted to listen to something to > something from my collection and I turned it on, it was great. What > wasn't great was the (sadly frequent) times when I had to spend 20-30 > minutes fannying* about with the software to get it working. What wasn't > great was on my wife's days off her calling me at work to say she > couldn't get internet radio working. > > Sophisticated devices - in my experience, the more sophisticated a > device, the easier/better the user experience. I have had a couple of > decades working in manufacturing, some of it in hi-tech. Make it work, > make it work well, then make it cheap! Slim Devices, and then Logitech > had barely got beyond the first stage. > > There is a quote on one of the Sonos forums (fora?!) that states > something along the lines of "music does not exist to test your hifi" > > > I do not need to have devices around the house to make me appear > "technologically savvy". I've got beyond that. I want thing to, just, > work. Is that too much to ask. > > When I have people round for dinner, and they suggest something that is > available on Spotify, it would be quite nice to be able to play the > tracks of their choice without any bother. Sonos lets me do this. I do > not need to try and impress upon them my "technology savvy" chops by > having to dick about with the bloody Squeezebox Touch every third track > 'cos it's dropped the connection. If that's being "technology savvy", > then leave me out, I'd rather be a card-carrying member of the real > world music loving community that just WANTS STUFF TO WORK. First time, > every time. > > As you may have gathered, *I at first found your post amusing, then, > after the benefit of a few beers, quite insulting*. > > I'm glad to be moving away from a community that, on the basis of your > post, seems to promote complexity over simplicity, makes a virtue of > things being "difficult", and mocks well thought out solutions to > problems. > > > * If you're from the USA, then "fanny" has a different meaning to us in > the UK. To us in the UK, a "fanny", is a, well, how do I say it? It's a > lady's front bottom. If you've never seen one, ask a grown up.
Just to clear something up, the bold quoted part of your post is exactly how I intended my post to come across. "*Having a go*" (which is how I perceived your OP) on *-this-* forum is a waste of time and effort - it is a hangover from the days of Slim Devices that Logitech still indulges. Your post should have been posted in the *Logitech* forum, where it would have been ignored. Logitech generally disregard what happens over here - Logitech have abandoned Squeezebox because it is high maintenance, and they are not set up to support it, which -is- a real shame. I was none too pleased to see you having a dig at a community that is *not* responsible for causing your woes, and that, as I have already stated, is how I perceived your post. Enjoy your Sonos. If it does what you want, then that's great. My Squeezebox Touch plays 24/192 files with no issue (thanks Triode), and that's with a server that cannot resample on the fly, which is also great. Spotify is not in my list of requirements, although it's nice if it works. Chris :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stratmangler's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20387 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100758 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
