Just took a look at the YouTube video of the Sooloos in action. BlueBlast;149640 Wrote: > First: Its not just a standard PC with a nice UI. They did a fair > amount of their own custom hardware as well as database work. They may have done some custom hardware, but that doesn't mean what the system achieves can't be done with commodity H/W. As for "database work", presumably that means they designed a suitable schema (just like the Slim Devices folks did). Nobody in their right mind would build their own proprietary DBMS for such a device.
BlueBlast;149640 Wrote: > Second: Its blazingly fast. The response time is much much better than > any Windows/Linux media server I saw at CEDIA. Indeed it is. But what they achieve shouldn't be rocket science. Let's be generous and say that the metadata + cover art for an album is as much as 10kBytes. Even with a fairly large music collection of 10,000 albums, the total size is 100 MB, which can easily be completely cached in RAM. Add to that a bit of intelligent pre-preparation of all the possible next screens that can be linked to from the current one, and you arrive at the very slick performance we see. But the point is that it can all be done with off-the-shelf inexpensive hardware. What this device *should* be doing is making people ask why so many other media servers have such sluggish UIs (Slimserver, for example). In my opinion, Slimserver is hobbled by the use of a web interface. It doesn't matter how clever you get, the connectionless HTTP protocol is a barrier to really snappy response. Sooloos have shown how much better things can be using a well-crafted standalone application. Others should take notice. Slimserver's UI could be made just as snappy if it were to be rewritten from the ground up as a client server application - if it were done in Java, it would still be platform independent. -- cliveb Performers -> dozens of mixers and effects -> clipped/hypercompressed mastering -> you think a few extra ps of jitter matters? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28499 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
