Given the WiiM Mini already has a plethora of features packed into a relatively small hardware footprint, might I suggest that they consider ceasing any further major developments on the WiiM Mini and focus their energies on bringing new features just to the Pro? They’ve already hit a brick wall due to lack of memory concerning lossless Amazon Music multi room, and yesterday my Mini got itself in a twist, dropping the SPDIF connection and flipping between Spotify and Amazon Music when I stopped a Spotify stream to switch to Amazon Music, which WiiM again put down to memory issues. I’m not suggesting that they abandon the Mini but just restrict its development to enhancing current supported services rather than adding any new major services.
I also feel that, unless the development is already modular and can lend itself to the custom firmware versions mooted for Roon for example, that it could be a large engineering task to restructure its firmware to tailor it to allow users to choose which features they want in the firmware and which they don’t.
If I have any criticism of WiiM/Linkplay, it’s that they’re over enthusiastic and want to please all the people all of the time. As a result, they appear to promise features without them having been fully evaluated as to whether they’re feasible or not. Given the Mini’s limited memory and existing problems with that, I can’t see how they can cram in all they list in its roadmap. Plus it would clearly further differentiate the Mini from the Pro, connections and Chromecast aside.
