AndrewFG wrote: > Fortunately, the music world is *not* going in the direction of an Apple > mono-culture. Actually the real trend is towards UPnP / DLNA. All the > major audio/video consumer device manufacturers (think of the big names > like Sony, Samsung, Philips, LG, Denon etc.) already support it. It is > an open interworking standard so anyone can use it without paying > royalties or risking legal disputes. > > Ok admittedly some manufacturers (including Logitech) did not master the > UPnP technology, and some implementations are still quite quirky; but on > balance all the major manufacturers are using it, learning from their > mistakes, and continuously improving their offerrings. Indeed even > Microsoft supports UPnP. So basically it is Apple vs. R-o-W, and it is > stacking up to become yet-another format war like Blu-Ray vs. HDDVD, > however in this case I am putting my money on UPnP... > Can you give some concrete examples of UPnP based players with decent (non IR) remote controls that gives me a browsing experience similar to either Squeezebox or a Apple solution ?
I've tried some UPnP server and I've also tried some remote controls, all have either been very limited or very buggy or very user unfriendly and this is simply not acceptable in my listening room. However, it might just be me that haven't found the good/working implementations. Do you have any recommendations regarding good and working: - iPad based UPnP control - Android tablet based UPnP remote control - A good UPnP server working on Windows - A good UPnP server working on Linux - A good UPnP server working on OSX - A good UPnP server working on Sheevaplug or other similar devices with restricted resources - A UPnP player similar to Squeezebox Radio - A UPnP player similar to Squeezebox Touch I would love if UPnP (or any standard) would get a broad acceptance and provide the user experience I want, unfortunately the only solutions that offers that kind of user experience seems to be based more or less on proprietary protocols (Squeezebox, Apple, Sonos, ...) >From what I've seen UPnP have two major problems (unless I've misunderstood something): - It's very complex, because it tries to support a lot, which causes more or less all implementations to be buggy or incompatible in some way. - It requires the remote control (if it's UPnP based) to be powered on all the time, which uses a lot of battery on a smart phone/tablet based control. The reason for this is that the controller is the one that controls the playlist and instruct the player which track to play next. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95603 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
