Yes and no, it depends on the service. These services use DRM protection and SB can't sync a DRM protected signal it needs to be decoded first. Many of the services limit the number of devices which are allowed to connect to the service, for example on Rhapsody this is 3 devices.
For various reasons, mainly copy protection, the decoding can only be done on the hardware...not in the server...so you need to open up one stream for each player in sync. Example: You're playing Rhapsody on SB #1. It's downloading the encrpyted data from Rhapsody to your player, decoding the stream and playing it back. Then you choose to sync SB #2. As there is no way that SB #1 can share the decoded stream with SB #2 directly, it too has to start downloading and decoding the stream from Rhapsody. When it's doing so, the streams can be synchronised. Add in SB #3 and the same happens again. But Rhapsody only allow 3 concurrent connections so a 4th player cannot connect. Also, if you use Rhapsody directly on a PC you may find you're limited to 2 devices. This doesn't just apply to sync, but to playback in general. The ability sync varies a little from service to service. Some work fine, some don't work at all, some are limited like Rhapsody is. Obviously to sync 3 players, you'll also need 3 times the bandwidth on your internet connection. -- jaffacake Ben - eco conscious techie and author of Jaffa's Green Blog - http://www.jaffacake.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jaffacake's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3206 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48523 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
