I looked into both Olive and MusicCast before coming to SB. Both systems were: - closed source - limited features - almost no customization - very limited offered services / subscriptions - minimal codec support - big, clunky, ugly boxes (worse than Sonos ;)) - no "players" to utilize the main units library/services (I think MusicCast did eventually add these later, before dropping the whole line) - both were WAY overpriced
Olive is essentially an overpriced VortexBox with fewer features. MusicCast is so closed source you couldn't even backup your library without "special" software from Yamaha. To simply upgrade the MusicCast HDD required sending the entire unit to a Yamaha service center (or an unauthorized third party) to again run special Yamaha proprietary software to transfer the HDD data to another HDD. This service cost hundreds (not including the cost of the HDD itself) and took weeks. Yamaha would only allow "their" HDD's be used, which were off the shelf HDD's that Yamaha marked up over 100% above mfr list price. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96241 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
