gobikey Wrote: > Longer version: (Sorry that it's a bit of a flame to Olive)
Wow, your story gave me a flashback to the year 2000 when I was debugging the first-ever network component player, the AudioRequest. There were endless problems and glitches, including a proprietary OS partition that would get corrupted upon hard reboot (not good in Florida where we get thunderstorms almost daily in the summer). The sound chip in the original model was so bad (I think it was rated at 40-12000 hz or something) that every unit was recalled for an audio chip upgrade after several bad national reviews panning the sound quality. The 17GB hard drive was laughably small, the CD info lookup was flaky and inaccurate, the mp3 encoders were average at best, the Windows software was extremely buggy, file transfers to and from the player were maddeningly slow, the system bogged down with anything resembling a large collection (though adding more RAM usually helped). In short, it was barely beta-quality. AudioRequest eventually addressed most of these complaints, but the price of the units jumped from $800 to multi-thousand dollars (even funnier is the pricing structure, like $3000 for a 120GB model, $4500 for a 200GB model - only difference is the slightly larger hard drive!) >From your tales of the Olive Musica, it seems that these all-in-one units are still suffering from some of the same problems. The Slim philosophy of de-coupling the player from the CPU/OS/storage is extremely elegant. No need to re-invent the wheel when CPUs, drives, ripping and tagging schemes, etc are so cheap, flexible, and constantly evolving. -- Pale Blue Ego ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pale Blue Ego's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=110 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21135 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
