Streamer apps critical


I don't understand why high end manufacturers release streamers with terrible apps. One of the strongest advantages of the Nodes is the BluOS app. It's simple and effective,  though not full-featured. I understand the Innuos app is great. Not all of us like much less want to pay the cost of ROON and the online apps, like USB audio Player are clunky. I would love to see a paid-for version of BluOS or other manufacturers license a common but customized app, much as early versions of Windows were available from Dell, Gateway, Compaq and so many others. 

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@moonwatcher

Banks would not be using this approach or most global companies.

 

But yes comments are still best practice and now frequently in user exits... depending on the application. 

 

A story just for you, on commenting. I was implementing a global SAP system. Its base was a couple million lines of code. I had a team of about fifty people working on it, a number of of consultants for over a year. We went live. We had a really bazar and urgent issue. Don’t remember the issue. But, my lead programmer / manager and I were reduced to scrolling through thousands of lines of code and associated user exits at 2 am in the morning. Finally after a couple hours... we found a line changed. There is a comment: "I am going to hell for this, I know I shouldn’t do it, I will regret this" and the programmers name is time date stamped. We just looked at it and broke up in anger / laughing and said, "Yes you are!, you SOB". The programmer was in Belgium and we were working in the US for the go live so he was not immediately available. So a few weeks later were were having dinner with about 15 people in Europe and with the offending programmer. I got up and said I want to toast the person in this group nearly shut the company down, I am sure that he will recognize this comment: "I am going to hell for this....etc" while looking right at him. He turned deep red. He knew that to find that, there had to be a huge problem and that it would have taken hours and hours to find it, It was funny then... not some much when the company couldn’t ship globally.

Just came here to say that I agree with the premise of this thread. I’ve owned the Lumin T2 for the last few years. For my system and needs, I think it sounds fantastic. The UI is whole other story. There are entire threads on the Internet dedicated to how horrible it is.

The sad thing is a UI upgrade doesn’t even seem to be on Lumin’s radar. The most frustrating thing to me, is that you cannot filter or sort your playlist. I have over 1200 songs in mine, and I have to scroll for minutes trying to locate the one I want to play. Seems like an easy fix. Lumin, you out there?

One thing that flabbergasted me is that PSAudio felt ok releasing the AirLens, which seems a great streamer, without a native interface. I'm looking at buying a streamer in the 2-3k range and I'm afraid it WON'T be the AirLens. 

One thing to mention, is that unless I can use a "connect" app like Tidal Connect to pass the URL directly to it, I'm not interested in a streamer. It is a pity that those with deep pockets like Apple and Amazon don't create these "connect" apps for streamers to use. I heard Qobuz was, but not sure if any streamer company has it on their hardware yet. We'll see. Not sure if smaller streaming services like Deezer can afford it. Maybe they should submit it for bids.