1. If you start Squeezebox Touch with no internet connection, you are allowed to "continue" but five days later the music stops. If you want
If it stops after five days then I can assure you it's neither a built-in timer nor anything else "evil" trying to force you to connect to a network. It's most likely just the built-in "TinySB" software which crashes. Most likely some memory leak or similar.
to play music, you must start over. And starting over seems to require reselecting "random mix" in my application, among many other keypresses.
The hell! Every week you have start new playback?!?
1. If the owner of the webpage that must be accessed to allow the player to play turns off the webpage, your player becomes mostly unusable.
Nope. You can still run it using LMS. Many have started blocking ports and whatnot for whatever reason, and it'll work.
2. Alternatively, the owner might try to "monetize" the access to your hardware. They might charge you an annual fee, or sell your playlist to an advertising concern, for example.
I think if we wanted to charge you money for the service, Logitech would have done so years ago, not years after the devices had been dropped from the product line.
So I find the current situation dissatisfying and unsustainable, but acceptable in the short run, at least.
With all the challenges you're facing I'd sell the Touch as long as you can sell it for a reasonable price and get a simple MP3 player for the money instead. Running a product advertised as a "networked music player" without a network sounds kind of the wrong choice.
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