HeadBanger wrote: > Blimey ralphpnj that was plain unnecessary - I do hope you felt better > for that. Anti-Apple/Microsoft/Sonos rants really serve no purpose other > than to stir up ill feeling. Forums should be a place to offer advice in > a constructive manner. > > The OP asked 'why do I need a Logitech device?' and I simply pointed out > that if you already have an AirPlay device and a iPad/iPhone you don't > actually need to purchase a Squeezebox as LMS and iPeng will stream to > your AirPlay device. Now you may not believe it but there are people > that own these devices and they do work. > > I'm (un?)lucky enough to have both a work iPhone and iPad plus I have a > Marantz amp with AirPlay inbuilt. You'll see from my signature what I > run and I don't actually run the AirPlay configuration anywhere in my > household nor do I own any other Apple product. I have installed iPeng > (and it runs beautifully) and it will stream directly to my Marantz (I > have tried it) hence my reply. You are correct that AirPlay does not > support many audio formats but LMS/iPeng will transcode to WAV/Mp3 (not > ideal I know). > > I'm certainly no Apple fanboy (or anything else for that matter) and if > you re-read my original post I don't really think there's anything to > suggest that I am and nor did I say how great AirPlay is. > > I'll say no more really other than to ask you for an apology. > > HB
First off, please accept my apology. As I have stated in my prior posts on this thread I don't feel that Airplay or just about any other DLNA streaming device offers anywhere near the functionality or ease of use that the Logitech/Squeezebox system delivers. And I am speaking from experience and not just trying to bash Apple since I own two other media streaming devices. Namely a WD TV Live Plus (Ethernet) and a Panasonic DMP-755 Blu-Ray player (also Ethernet). While both of these devices are great at streaming from Netflix they are both really terrible at streaming music from my computer. They offer little or no library management and without good library management features finding music becomes unnecessarily difficult. There are no search capabilities, no nice displays, no plug-ins, etc. Plus each of these devices expects one to use Windows Media Player Library, which is so bad that it makes iTunes seem absolutely wonderful. So while just about every manufacturer has jumped on the streaming bandwagon, outside of Logitech (actually Slim Devices), there seem to be few of them who have taken the extra steps necessary to provide a complete system: streaming device PLUS a method of communicating with the server (computer) that doesn't leave one completely frustrated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95286 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
