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Hi all-

My name is Enno Vandermeer, and I founded Sooloos with Danny Dulai ten years ago. I've lurked here on and off over the years, so I wanted to introduce myself properly and get out into the open

As you all know, the Meridian Sooloos products haven't had the care and feeding they deserve over the last few years. What you may not know is that Danny and I (and the original dev team) haven't disappeared or been hibernating; we've shared many of the views in this topic since 2.1 shipped, and have been laying the foundation of a brighter future.

You'll be hearing a lot more from me over the coming weeks and onward from there. I want everyone to know that no opinion stated here goes unnoticed, and that your input is hugely influential in shaping our ongoing work (which is indeed a thing).

I'll start sharing some of that later this month.

Enno

Many of our key objectives (track-level metadata, UI localisation, artist/composer data, kinetic GUI, cross-platform clients) were too ambitious to be pursued as incremental changes to the existing codebase. So in 2010, following the release of 2.1, we started work on a ground-up rewrite of Sooloos.

That effort formed the basis of work we did over the ensuing years for Jaguar Land Rover and HP -- you'll find references to HP Connected Music elsewhere in the forums -- which had been prioritised at that point. Those projects have reached a kind of equilibrium, so over the last year we've put a great deal of design and development effort into what's next for Meridian Sooloos.

While we have been acutely aware of the deficiencies inherent in 2.1, our resources are limited, and making incremental improvements to an existing product while developing a new product in parallel would've been impossible. We made the choice to focus our efforts on the latter (however painful in the near term) and I'll be able to share some of that on the forums soon.