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 Rank: HIFI Novice Joined: 08/03/2009(UTC) Posts: 55 Location: Norfolk, UK
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Yup, Logitech have dumped the Squeezebox range, including Touch, and its customers. They say they will maintain mysqueezebox.com but the awful problems over the last 24 hours don't bode well. It's now almost certain that stable use will need LMS and therefore the PC running permanently. Access to Favourites and Apps will not be possible. This raises the question of suitability for purpose: have Logitech breached the Sale of Goods Act? I was going to buy another but shall save for something better in the main system, a CA Stream Magic 6 perhaps. More to the point, the interface is appalling: written by computer nerds for computer nerds; luckily, I'm I.T. savvy but even I have been tearing my hair out. Today, the box itself can see mysqueezebox.com yet the Player page there shows the thing is disconnected! I haven't tried it in the main system so can't give a useful opinion re sound quality but many folk with high quality systems seem to think it sounds very good "as is" and can be appreciably improved with a suitable DAC. Edited by user 02 November 2012 18:16:54(UTC)
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 Rank: HIFI Guru Joined: 28/07/2010(UTC) Posts: 431 Location: Cambs, UK
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Bit of a bummer, that! But you can see why they dumped it. The streamer/server split is a powerful and flexible architecture, but in these days of DLNA it simply isn't the same as anyone else's, and its advantages would be a hard sell even if it was all shiny and well-packaged. The old "squeeze" server architecture seems to have been open-sourced and maintained by geeks for years, with the result that it is staggeringly unattractive for anyone who isn't a geek. And the geeks who maintain it clearly don't have any interest in making it user-friendly, even the wikis are years out of date. Like most open-sourced software efforts, the developer community appears to inward-looking and self-validating, paying little attention to commercial realities.
So this product - you can imagine the conversations in the meeting rooms in Switzerland - either needed massive investment in software development and packaging (which is not a Logitech strong point anyway, trust me) - or binning to cut losses and run away. Given its unique architecture, incompatibility with anything else, non-compliance with DLNA standards, and loss of its unique market position to heavy competition from world+dog's interchangeable streamers, they clearly decided to run away. Shame. Am an owner, am pissed off, but don't blame them...
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