Mine was a long and extravagant road. I wanted a database to track my music library, and wrote several over the years: ModPerl+MySQL (inventory only), AOLserver+Oracle (included lossy MP3 encodings for a few hundred CDs), and finally settled on a (in retrospect, strangely) flexible solution using LDAP for metadata and hacked XBoxes running a custom Linux install (tuned to a shoutcast server for synchronization, though that never really worked well). The XBoxes worked much like a VFD-less SB and cost significantly more and produced inferior quality output.
After writing off my own development efforts, I purchased an SB2 and just used it for a few years. It was very functional for playback, which ended up outweighing the lack of good metadata. It died a slow death as the power supply misbehaved (random power loss, and later, dodgy Ethernet connectivity and a dead display). It did work well enough that I replaced it with several SB3s (all of which continue to work well). Maybe a Boom would be nice for the kitchen... I like to keep notes on music as I acquire, enjoy, and otherwise encounter it over time. Neither SC7 not last.fm support this in a usable way. Maybe library management and flexible metadata will make it into some future SC release... -- syburgh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53831 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
