I am looking into buying a player such as the SB to play CDs that I have ripped to the HD as flac files. If SB can act as a DLNA client and can receive streams from other DLNA servers, be it a fully featured computer, or a simple NAS box, then it would make my decision to get the SB much easier.
I don't really care about SC. It's just a piece of software running on the computer that is needed to run the SB. I am NOT asking for the other way around, updating SC to support DLNA clients. Why would I do that? It's not like SC is the best piece of software ever. ;) It's a server written in perl, it's big, its slow. The key point is, SB-SC talks to one another using a non standard protocol, while the rest of the industry is standardizing on this DLNA stuff. If the SB, where Logitech makes its money from, can work with DLNA servers, then it will make the device more useful as there will be more and more DLNA devices in the future that SB can interact with (ok just play music from). Otherwise, the SB will forever be tied to the SC running on a PC, and that just seems too limiting. For example, if the SB can be a DLNA client, then it no longer depends on the computer running SC. I can simply leave the NAS box (many supports DLNA stream) and SB running to listen to my music, without leaving my computer on 24x7. Leaving the computer on 24x7 is not a big deal for a lot of people, but it is a big deal for the majority of non-geek people. I am using a SB proof of concept at home using a desktop and a laptop wirelessly (I really like it). But my wife keeps asking me, "why I need to leave the computer on to listen to music?" Personally I also prefer to turn the computer off if I can. This is one of the appeal of the Sonos. I have the option of using a NAS and keep the computer out of it. I want to use the computer to do the work of setting up the device and ripping music to NAS, but I want it OFF when I am just listening to music. (Let's not get into the argument that NAS is a computer. By the same argument, everything you have is a computer, your TV, your receiver, your DVR..) If DLNA becomes the standard, then it will only be a matter of time before SB supports it. It's better to do it earlier than later. Think about it, 5 years from now, when all TVs or receivers or game consoles or whatever starts to support DLNA, and DLNA server software on computers becomes better and better and NAS and receivers universally supports it. Who's gonna buy SB? -- wildgoose ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wildgoose's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23501 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18295 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
