garym wrote: > I'd say no, you haven't missed anything. Perhaps the idea that it is a > server that is agnostic to many different player endpoints but is > fortunately NOT generic/not useful DLNA.
Yes that ambition to play on almost any endpoint (expect upnp/dlna) Julf wrote: > But you are still at the mercy of a provider of a proprietary system. :( As always, the mother of all proprietary systems iTunes for example :( I also dislike proprietary systems as much as anyone else :( ,but these guys have no hardware to sell to finance the software as SLIM/Logitech did so charge for their software they must if they want to have a business . Another thing happened metadata of any quality has been monetised , thats why free projekt struggle to get lyrics pictures reviews and other stuff . A large chunk of the ROON fee goes to metadata providers . If a comercial program show your cover image from you files thats probably ok but what if it subtitutes with a higher rez one from the internet ? thst probably some IP rigth there . My pow i do like nice aditional data when i listen i have my iPad nearby and using iPeng with suitable plugins read bios and have a clance at credits pictures etc , is that the artist info plugin that gives me that . They provide SDK for hardware manufacturers for RAAT ok but thats not really free software ? Why cant any hobbyist roll their own player . Logitech could grove a bussines around mysqueezebox.com by selling that acess to hardware manufacturers making replacement squeezeboxes . or maybe the protocols used in our boxes starting showing thier age ? I also whished that you could source players endpionts software and servers indepedently , but then you fall down to upnp . LMS do provide that sort of :) and its suprisingly resiliant ? I wonder why we survive ,of course all the free time entusiast use to maintain the system especially Mherger . I start to develop a theory that we are on the backburner rather than abandoned , maybe Logitech keeps the infrastructure just in case and it probably provide some small revenue from service providers . -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105146 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
