syburgh;452006 Wrote: > > I think a PogoPlug style SC7 appliance with USB drives and *no wireless > NIC* would help a lot (tell people to plug it into their router. I've > never seen/heard of an a SB owner without a Linksys/D-Link/whatever > router). Put LEDs on it to indicate when that it has a connection to the > Internet (or SqueezeNetwork, or just a DHCP lease), a connection to 1 or > more SB players (perhaps it could blink or change color when it finds > un-configured players), and a light to indicate when SC is > ready/rescanning the library. USB hard drives are cheap and simplicity > is golden, so don't over-feature it and make it a FreeNAS/WHS clone. > PogoPlugs cost $99, but I think a SC appliance would be worth at least > as much as a Boom, and I might even be persuaded to pay some sort of > subscription fee for radio and ongoing SC updates (if this is what it > would take to get better quality SC releases). > Have you not seen the discussion on the upcoming Squeezebox Touch player ? Its spec includes a USB port and SD card slot and the speculation is that it will be able to run a version of SqueezeCenter (hence the need to move SqueezeCenter to sqllite). Though I suspect that the software isn't quite there yet and it will probably launch without that feature being advertised.
-- andynormancx Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ? I SAID ALL OF THEM ! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ andynormancx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17417 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67040 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
