Yeah it's clear to me that you use the Touch as a remote and not a player. Sometimes I use my HTC Touch as a remote to control the Mac or the PC with Salling Clicker and sometimes I use it to stream audio from my Mac or PC to the phone and listen to it with headphones. I can't stream flac though. Not enough bandwidth on the HTC touch wifi. And the HTC Touch on wifi gives me like 1 hour of battery lol.
Anyway I wake up today to see my SO listening to music on the balcony from the squeezebox to a pair of HD600. Since I like to sleep in she tries to spare me from a musical barrage. The squeezebox was connected to the slimserver on the Mac and she was listening through her iTunes collection while basking in the sun (what little sun we get here in Sweden). So I go to the Mac, start Softsqueeze and Airfoil and let it connect to the Airport Express which is connected to the hometheater system and hand her the Duet remote. "Here ya go. Connect to a player. Now you can choose "Listening Corner" or "iMac" or "PC". If you connect to iMac then you can stay on the balcony with the remote and listen to music through the speakers since the remote "is controlling softsqueeze now". She pauses for a second and then goes "Oooooh.... damn that's cool!". So I say "yup, now you don't have to try pointing to your iMac with your remote from across the living room and you don't have to cry about not being able to install Salling on your Prada phone". I was thinking of buying just any crappy phone for that purpose but now it's solved with the duet remote. Also you can tell slimserver to scan iTunes AND a folder. Now I just have to see if Softsqueeze on OS X can playback FLAC. Or we just stick to ALAC on the iMac. The squeezebox I use is connected to a headphone amp (X-CANV8) in a listening corner in the living room with a pair of HD600 and AKG701. There are some cool features in Salling though, like pausing playback when somebody phones me, shutting down the computer, etc... The only thing separating us men from boys is the price of our toys. =) As for my SO... she's been a Mac fan since day one. iTunes, iPod, iMac, iBook (lol), you name it. I don't see myself convincing her to stop using iTunes lol. But I did show her what ALAC is the other day. And FLAC, and Cog.app. I prefer PC and Foobar but I work with Macs 90% of the time. Ah, the irony. -- Random Access ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Random Access's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18743 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49790 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
