This was brought up in another thread recently and for the life of me I can't find it. It's probably good to break a discussion of this into a separate thread anyway.
I think this could be a good idea. It's obvious that the Touch will always have limitations as a server. VortexBox could allow Logitech to offer a reasonably priced alternative. It's been developed from the beginning as an appliance, which would position it well with the rest of the product line. Though it's improved a lot since the beginning, CD ripping and tagging has been the weak area of Vortex box when compared to something like dbPowerAmp IMO. So, what if it was taken a bit further. What if VortexBox offered a version had an HDMI connection? And had GNOME or KDE desktop installed? With WINE? And a wireless keyboard/mouse (Logitech makes them I think ;-)? They could also partner with Illustrate, the creators of dbPowerAmp, to include that in the bundle. All preconfigured to run right out of the box! And while we are at it, throw in a version of squeezeplay with an HD skin that looked nice on a big screen TV? That could be a pretty sweet product I think. One stubmling block I can think of is I wonder if there is a license issue with WINE that would make VortexBox/Logitech leary of including it in the box. I'm sure Agilis would jump for joy if a partnership like this were proposed, assuming the terms were beneficial. What do you guys think? -- maggior Rich --------- Setup: 2 SB3s, 4 Booms, 1 Duet, 1 Receiver, 1 Touch. SuSE 11.0 Server running SqueezeBoxServer 7.5.0, MusicIP, and SqueezeSlave. Current library stats: 33,060 songs, 2,656 albums, 484 artists. http://www.last.fm/user/maggior ------------------------------------------------------------------------ maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77758 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
