mlsstl wrote: > However, the neat thing is that, if I've bothered to back up my music > collection, it exists completely independent of the player I use. I > believe one can have a high level of confidence that there will always > be a way to play my music. [...] I won't be left hanging with a big > collection and no way to listen to it. >
Not so sure. I've done that, backed the music up, etc. But, a lot of mine is .ogg - because SB plays ogg - but most other systems I've checked don't. I can see a time coming when those other systems on the market won't play flac, either, which is another coding I've commonly used. Fair enough, if there's no 'demand', in the future, which would enable the cost of that option to be recovered from hardware purchasers. But this does concern me - slightly - if the SB hardware lines were to close. Of course, everything could be transcoded to different formats - though retaining the tags is a bit trickier and would be an issue on a large collection - but of more concern is that transcoding lossy formats would result in further degradation. I too have high confidence - but only as long as the hardware lasts. What is the asset life of SB kit? Maybe 10-12 years, for the box, but slightly less - judging by some fairly regularly-occurring posts - for the power-pack. I don't think we're there, yet, though. Let's see what develops. regards, Atlantic ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Atlantic's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95885 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
