Seems that I'm not the only one having this crazy idea. The implementation would be tough, though - not necessarily from the technology point of view, but rather from accessibility and security point of view.
Accessibility
Providers are on a lockdown for a long time now - at least, most of your well known ports (HTTP, SMTP, SNMP, you name it) are closed, at most, you don't even have a public IP address. This represents an extra step necessary in the setup procedure - which is going to kill off 50% of your potential users (okay, 10% since it's Squeezebox we're talking about).
Security
Gone are the times of world readable finger(1) access. Passwords are not too good either. Transport encryption is a must. PKI is looming.
It would be interesting to watch this application being written. Might try this myself, just for the fun of it.
Update: And of course, it's not only BlackBerry + Squeezebox, it's also iPhone + Squeezebox, Android + Squeezebox, and, in general ${mobile-device} + ${appliance}... Here's a good example: OpenRemote. And of course, we'll have the platform wars all over again...
Regarding your update:
ReplyDeleteOf course, using the web interface does work for every mobile, but native apps are even more comfortable and much faster.
I don't know if a native app for Blackberry exists, but I can recommend these SqueezeBox native apps for Android/iPhone:
SqueezeCommander for Android: http://sqcmdr.flattermann.net
iPeng for iPhone: http://www.penguinlovesmusic.de