Airtunes has been around for a while. However, I've never really been tempted to build a system with iTunes as a 'server' application because it's not built to be one. It's a foreground application with a GUI and can only stream at a time (although that one stream can have many simultaneous endpoints). Moreover, unless I can get a 500GB iPAD, it wouldn't be an appropriate host for my music collection. Even if I could fit a large music collection on a flash-based device, whenever I wanted to use a different device to stream my music collection I'd need to have a copy of my music collection there as well. It would be a major problem to keep multiple copies in synch.
So, I clearly need a client-server approach, which the Airtunes/Airplay ecosystem doesn't have. I am not aware that there are any plans to change that. -- dsdreamer ---------------------- "Dreamer, easy in the chair that really fits you..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dsdreamer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81670 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
