CatBus wrote: > So, lucky me, every Squeezebox I own is still 100% functional. But I > know eventually something's going to break, and dammit I really like > these things. So to prepare myself for that dreadful day, I wanted to > write out my personal feature wishlist (sort of prioritized), and see > what's out there that best matches what I want. > > 1. Ogg Vorbis support. Yeah, let's start with a curveball, shall we? > 100% of my music is in Ogg Vorbis format, so good support is a must, but > on-the-fly transcoding is fine. > 2. Gapless playback > 3. Multi-device sync (without breaking gapless playback!) > 4. Multi-tagging + ALBUMARTIST support > 5. Replaygain support > 6. Ability to play Internet streams (i.e. radio stations) > 7. Ability to control playback from and show Now Playing > info/visualizations on that device > 8. IR remote support > > As far as what's out there: for packaged products, we have Sonos, Olive, > and various DLNA implementations (anything else?). Then, for projects, > we have, AFAICT, various ways to run SqueezeLite--on a Raspberry Pi, on > an HTPC, on a tablet, etc. > > First off, did I miss anything? Secondly, how well do each of these > replacements stack up, relative to an actual Squeezebox? If I > understand correctly, #2, #3, and #4 are hard to come by in packaged > products, and #7 and #8 might be hard to accomplish via SqueezeLite. I > could probably handle #7 and #8 via the SlimServer web interface (or > some other interface) on a phone or tablet, although I really do > strongly prefer using the IR remote control over the web interface.
I've got an RPi running squeezelite and jivelite (using SqueezeOnArch). jivelite responds to keyboard commands to navigate, and use FLIRC and a media center remote to generate the psuedo key-presses from an IR remote. I have an LCD screen (same resolution as Joggler, so can use the Joggler skin in jivelite) connected via HDMI. HiFiBerryPi AMP+ to some passive speakers - almost a "Boom2". Haven't figured out how to add visualizations, but the menus work OK, and Now Playing screen. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tcutting's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17402 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103588 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
