regalma1 wrote: > Very savvy company. They produce a product, sell it, and leave it to > users to solve any problems. Keeps the overhead down. Actually pretty > typical of computer companies - sorry to say. > > For what it is worth. This was my experience before they were bought by > Logitech.
Keep in mind the server was developed by many of the people who frequent this list. Not Logitech. And if you want to be one of those people, you can be. Also, keep in mind that problems that developers / users hate are usually resolved quickly unlike commercial music servers. For years now I have heard people complain about iTunes creating double entries of music collections. From what I can tell, it would be simple for Apple to solve this problem. I don't believe this is a problem with SC. Getting back to the original post - why are you ripping using iTunes? Here are some of the questions I would ask if I were doing what you are doing: Doesn't this put you into a position of always transcoding music from Apples AAC format? (Ripping inside of iTunes probably creates these types of files, right? This is not native to SB players AFAIK. So, will your server always need to transcode from AAC to MP3 or FLAC or something else on the fly every time you play somethine?) If you rip with iTunes will you always have to run iTunes to access your music? (So, correct me if I am wrong. But you will need to run iTunes and SC and MySQL and what ever transcoding software you need to convert from iTunes to a stream the SB will understand. Wow, what a lot of overhead for something that should be simple.) If you rip with iTunes now before they get rid of DRM will you be locked into iTunes. Will there be a reason that will cause you to re-rip your CD collection after DRM is removed from iTunes (if/when that happens)? If you rip with iTunes will you be able to easily support other music appliances like sony walkman phones, gramin GPSs, ... ect with out re-ripping your CD collection? What I do is rip my CD collection to MP3s which is fairly universal, even w/iTunes. And if you are really picky, you can try FLAC, which is not as universal. This way I can play back my collection on just about every music appliance I own. ...hope that helps. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
