[smilingsun]

I understand that there is a great community effort to run local instances of the open source version of "Logitech Media Server" (LMS).

Where I get really annoyed is that Squeezebox Radio devices are rendered either really hard to use or essentially useless.

Factory reset is bricked because it relies on mysb.com (as I understand from the forums), but moreover something as easy as streaming internet radio shouldn't be possible to carpet-pull. I don't think it's a fair alternative to say "in order to use your kitchen radio, you should run your own LMS server on a computer that's always-on" (also why not just use the computer to play the radio then in the first place).

Owners of a Logitech Squeezebox Radio can also be senior non-tech people and vision impaired. People can be happy with their device and not able to switch, certainly not forced to switch with a damp announcement like this:

> We're shutting down our servers in 1 week. Here's a QR code that you can't > see if you're blind. And here's ZERO official advice about how you can continue > to use your radio.

For something as simple as streaming a few internet radio stations, it's super annoying -- and shouldn't be legal. There should be a strong consumer regulation to protect from such carpet-pulling. When a company markets a device, it should be obliged to keep the service running... otherwise pay back the money or go bankrupt.

p.s. small typo in the title, worth correcting to make this more searchable. Should be "UESmartRadio.com and MySqueezebox.com servers closing"

[Arnt]

LMS is open source, always has been, and is not a version that which shuts down.

I've reset all of mine without any mysb dependency (I bought new hardware on ebay when the old ones died), and most of the radio streaming works without mysb too. Some stations don't, can't tell why.

Tidal requires mysb, AFAICT because LMS proxies via mysb and an API key is stored at mysb.

[smilingsun]

That's great - sounds like you're a tech person and can have fun with LMS :) I'm sure it's a lot of fun if you have a good use case/motivation.

I belong to the group of people who wouldn't run a home server to listen to 1 internet radio station (BBC World Service) in the morning hours. I'll probably throw out the poor radio and end up listening to internet radio on my laptop with a crappier sound and more fuzz to start it up. But I hope there's a way I can continue to run the radio without mysb, which is currently not entirely clear.

I'm also worried for elderly and blind people who are now thrown under the bus. It's probably not the first time they experience being slapped by the cold backhand of disruptive "progress".