A few more differences between Roku and Squeezebox. Only native lossless formats supported are WAV and AIFF.
Itunes integration only using Roku branded unit - if Pinnacle branded unit is used then Itunes support is only possible using the Firefly server which user will need to install somewhere. Roku can use uPNP servers which come with many NAS have but the search and browser features are dependent on the server so functionality may vary from NAS to NAS and are not very good at handling large collections. No synchronisation between units. No FF/Rew of native formats Support for non native formats such as RealAudio, APE etc. depends on the server. Many UPNP servers and Firefly offer limited or no support for transcoding. No support for radio stations with special logins procedures such as Sirius, XM. No plugin capability makes this hard to implement beyond user id & password in the URL. No MP3Tunes support. No Pandora support except using by a PC and software such as Icecast with control on the PC. Rhapsody support requires a PC to be running. Roku has poor multilingual support. On the plus side - RokuRadio is supposed to provide a very comprehensive organised list of radio stations. -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39785 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
