ModelCitizen Wrote: > Just to get this thread back on track. > A C++ app for running my Squeezebox looks good to me. I would help test > it on my Squeezebox anyway I can, and would pay for the result. > > To put this into context: > > I have spent a load of dosh on my hifi > I listen to music virtually all the time > Most of my music is on hard disk in lossless format and I've spent too > much dosh on that too. > Squeezebox, I've spent some dosh on and it seems fine but is reliant on > SlimServer. > Slimserver, extremely slow and unreliable (and has been the same way > for almost two years). It can destroy my Squeezebox experience (and > very often does). > > I'd really like a good bit of software, written with Windows in mind, > that enables me to search, list and play my music quickly/instantly and > reliably. I'd also appreciate an elegant, configurable interface, but > this is secondary. > > If this app could do that (can it? If it uses Slimserver, isn't it > handicapped already?), then I am all for it. > > My benchmark for Windows music software is always Foobar 2000. What an > amazing bit of kit.... knocks all professional music software (Windows > Media Player, Music Match, Real Player, Winamap etc etc) into a cocked > hat.... and apparently written by one guy (give him a knighthood). > > I am f***** desperate for some good software to run my Squeezebox. > > The recent Slimserver upgrade from 5*** to 6*** has made no difference > at all to me. It still runs like a dog. > > MC Ack! Noooo... I have no desire to write a replacement for SlimServer! I was thinking more along the lines of a SlimServer client for Windows-based HTPCs (*if* there was enough interest in it). And it'd most likely be written in .net rather than C++.
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